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Building a Fedora Guest System using 'cobbler' and 'koan'

Cobbler is a tool for configuring a provisioning server for PXE, Xen, and existing systems. See https://cobbler.et.redhat.com for details. The following instructions are rather minimal and more configuration options are available.

First, set up a provisioning server:

• yum install cobbler
  man cobbler # read the docs!
  cobbler check # validate that the system is configured correctly
  cobbler distro add --name=myxendistro --kernel=/path/to/vmlinuz --initrd=/path/to/initrd.img
  cobbler profile add --name=myxenprofile --distro==myxendistro [--kickstart=/path/to/kickstart]
  cobbler list # review the configuration
  cobbler sync # apply the configuration to the filesystem
  

Alternatively, cobbler can import a Fedora rsync mirror and create profiles automatically from there. Some of the imported distros will be Xen profiles and some will be for bare metal. Usage of the Xen profiles will be required. See the manpage for details.

• cobbler import --mirror=rsync://your-fedora-mirror --mirror-name=fedora
  cobbler sync
  

On the system that will host the image:

• yum install koan
  koan --virt --profile=myxenprofile --server=hostname-of-cobbler-server
  

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