Koelewijn, Marcel - Acision wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cobbler-bounces(a)lists.fedorahosted.org [mailto:cobbler-
> bounces(a)lists.fedorahosted.org] On Behalf Of Michael DeHaan
> Sent: maandag 15 september 2008 14:23
> To: cobbler mailing list
> Subject: installing cobbler in a virtual host (Re: pxe menu timeout)
>
> Rui Gouveia wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I need to install a server for an institution. I'm thinking of using
>> xen, lvm2 and cobbler for managing some of the institution hosts.
>>
>> Regarding this thread, can I iunstall cobbler in a xen virtual host?
>>
>> Thanks for your time.
>>
>> Rui Gouveia
>> (Portugal)
>>
>>
> Yes, though running it on metal is recommended as that makes for one
> less layer of things to debug if you want to serve DHCP and DNS so
> forth
> from there.
>
For that matter - it works well when running (and provisioning) in vmware (tested on
server, workstation and player, not on ESX).
/marcel
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Yes, there is nothing virt-type specific or anything that cobbler knows
about that would prevent that. The question is just whether you want to
serve DHCP and DNS from a VM. I'm pretty sure you don't. If those are
external and cobbler is just your next_server, that is probably ok.
Provisioning also tends to have a lot of storage requirements
(especially if mirroring trees or packages), so that's another reason
possibly to not put cobbler on a VM (unless you want to mount external
storage and bother about relocating directories -- see Wiki).
For testing or just simple stuff, sure.