I'll be trying something like the following shortly on vmware, I used
a similar method to do provisioning on xen domUs. I might be missing
something but I was doing something like the following.
Make gold VM with the following vmdks
- boot/root
- swap
- data
Go ahead and format/partition the 1st vmdk only. Mount it and then
install grub, mbr, and autoyast kernel/initrd that you would serve
over tftp.
Set the grub boot line to start off the autoyast with the
options/control file/etc you want. At that point it's autoyasting just
like it was pxe booting, you have just removed the need to pxe.
So when someone clones the gold VM they are just cloning something
that will boot and kickoff an autoyast. Kinda lame, since pxe has it's
own advantages that you are no longer using. The only real difference
in this is that it's not pxe booting, and the vmware guys _think_ they
are cloning with their mouse click.
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BigBeerJR
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Tim Kirby
Has anyone written any thoughts on the interplay between VM cloning and autoyast ? I haven't seen anything that I can recall but then again I haven't been watching closely... but it appears to have appeared on my radar screen now, so I thought I'd ask.
Tim -- Tim Kirby 651-605-9074 trk@cray.com Cray Inc. Information Systems
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