Jeff Schroeder wrote:
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Rodrique Heron
<swygue(a)rodhouse.org> wrote:
> What you layout is the best aproach, I work in many windows enviroments and
> RIS sucks, so we have always depend on imgaging to roll out new Windows
> desktops to servers. If the brialiant coders could figure out a way to have
> cobbler clone an existing system and redeploy it anyware, that would satisfy
> the Windows admins I know.
>
Here is an insane idea for you to chew on. Perhaps someone could take
the virt-p2v[1] livecd and make it smart enough to spit out a
"cloneable" image that could be pxe-deployed by cobbler?
[1]
http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v/
Need to look more at the internals of that.
What Andrew had was kind of like p2v ... used a live media to clone the
disk image using partimage-ng to NFS, and the same image had a loader mode.
Check this out here...
https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/PhysicalSystemCloneFeature
How about we try to get this going again?
I think it mostly worked in his lab install... though I was seeing some
issues with it... and we might want to try to speed it up or do
something else slightly different
using the same general idea.
There are a lot of smart folks on this list, I'm sure we can figure
something out.
--Michael