On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 5:28 AM, Jewel Nuruddin <jewel.nurud...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi, > Thanks for the reply. > Yes you are right CloudStack might not be good for cobbler because of DHCP, > and Cloudstack have already VirtualRouter which does dhcp for all the > instances launched. > > Thanks > Jewel > > --- On Fri, 6/8/12, Prasanna Santhanam <prasanna.santha...@citrix.com> wrote: > > From: Prasanna Santhanam <prasanna.santha...@citrix.com> > Subject: Re: Dose CloudStack support PXE boot > To: "cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org" > <cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org> > Cc: "cloudstack-us...@incubator.apache.org" > <cloudstack-us...@incubator.apache.org> > Date: Friday, June 8, 2012, 6:20 PM > > On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 04:58:59AM -0400, Jewel Nuruddin wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Can I create a vm without ISO or template, > > CloudStack did used to have a concept of "Blank ISO" before. I'm not > sure if it is usable here or not. And what happened of it. > >> why I ask this because in > my environment I want to use Cobbler so >> every vm will get start from > Cobbler and install everything >> automatically. So I need to know if CloudStack vm can support PXE boot. > > Doesn't Cobbler expect to be the only DHCP server in the network? This > might not play well with the VirtualRouter of CloudStack which does > dhcp for all the instances launched. > > For your auto install of packages you could consider deploying a > solution with > > Chef: > http://www.opscode.com/blog/2012/02/13/chef-support-for-citrix-cloudstack/ > > Or > > Puppet: > http://geek.jasonhancock.com/2012/02/08/running-puppet-on-cloudstack-instances/ > > -- > Prasanna.,
You are correct in that Cobbler can configure both DHCP and PXELINUX config files. However, you might be able to set the 'next-server' and 'filename' params in the CloudStack DHCP server, which could point you to a cobbler-managed server that has your PXELINUX config files and images. Mike
