Today I reduced the stratospheric level of procrastination in which I've been indulging by actually getting pypxeboot and cobbler set up and working. It's really amazingly slick -- a single command provisions a VM and writes a config file.
However, I'm not sure how useful this really is in the Xen context. It does integrate very well with a "bare metal" provisioning system (like kickstart.) One of the nice things about Xen, though, is that you can just copy disk images around, or dd one physical device to another. If you've already got a fully-configured pxeboot-based system running on your network, this is useful. If not, it's probably easier to just write some short scripts.
I've got to admit, though, RedHat has a slick product.
I just realized that "cobbler" is a pun based on "kickstart" . . . shoes. . . kick. . . my word, RedHat, that isn't funny at all.
However, I'm not sure how useful this really is in the Xen context. It does integrate very well with a "bare metal" provisioning system (like kickstart.) One of the nice things about Xen, though, is that you can just copy disk images around, or dd one physical device to another. If you've already got a fully-configured pxeboot-based system running on your network, this is useful. If not, it's probably easier to just write some short scripts.
I've got to admit, though, RedHat has a slick product.
I just realized that "cobbler" is a pun based on "kickstart" . . . shoes. . . kick. . . my word, RedHat, that isn't funny at all.
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