Kickstarting/PXE Booting Oracle Virtual Machines under OVM3
876211Feb 16 2012 — edited Feb 16 2012Hello,
I've installed a POC OVM3 2 node Cluster running 3.0.1 and managed under OVM Manager 3.0.3 as advised by Oracle Support. In the past, we have had running Oracle VM2 Clusters in Prodction and Test and have managed to script installs of VM's by running a script on the hosts that creates our base VM's. Part of the script runs the following and has been quite successful:
# Create Virtual machine using Virt Install
virt-install -p -n $VNAME -r $RAM vcpus=$VCPUS vncport=$VNCPORT -x ks=$KICKLOC$KSFILE nonsparse -b $XENBR -s $ROOTSIZE -f $OVMREPO/running_pool/$VNAME/System.img -l $RHELOS$OSDIR nographics
I understand that virt-install is not available under OVM3 and we cannot use this method. We presently have a substantiall VMware environment, that we use PXE Boot and kickstart and would like to be able to automate this when we implement OVM3 fully in a similar manner. Can anyone point me in the right direction please?
Edited by: LeeUK on 16-Feb-2012 02:21