Setting Up Your Virtual Systems; Create A Kickstart Profile For The Guest Systems - Red Hat NETWORK SATELLITE 5.1.1 Reference Manual

Chapter 8. Virtualization
You will then need to edit the /etc/grub.conf configuration file to boot the new xen kernel by
default. To do this, select the lines in grub.conf that pertain to the xen kernel from the beginning
of the title line to the end of the initrd line, copy the lines, delete them, and paste them so
they are the first kernel entry in grub.conf. Also ensure that the value of the default variable at the
top of grub.conf is set to a value of '0'.
5. Reboot the system, boot it into the xen kernel. The system should not automatically boot into the
xen kernel on reboot but if you would like to make sure it has for troubleshooting purposes, use the
command uname -r to see if the running kernel is a xen kernel. If you do not see the xen string in
the name of the kernel, you have not booted into the correct kernel.
Note
If the system already has xen and kernel-xen installed you do not need to reboot
after installing rhn-virtualization-host.
6. You will also need to install and run the osad package in order for your host system to be
responsive to commands sent from the Satellite, such as start, pause, resume, and shutdown. To
install:
yum install -y osad
after installation, you should then start the osad process:
/sbin/service osad restart
7. Your host system should now be ready for RHN virtual guest provisioning.

8.2. Setting Up Your Virtual Systems

In order to work with virtual guest systems, you must first create a kickstart profile that will allow you to
easily provision virtual guests, then you must provision the guests.

8.2.1. Create a Kickstart Profile for the Guest Systems

1. Log on to the Satellite's web interface. Navigate to the Kickstart Overview screen by clicking on
the Manage Kickstarts link in the Tasks widget in Your RHN, or by clicking on Systems in the top
Kickstart from the left navigation bar.
navigation bar
2. On the Kickstart Overview page, click the Create a new Kickstart Profile link in the Kickstart
Actions widget in the upper right corner.
3. The next page displayed is Step 1 of the kickstart profile creation process:
a. Enter a label for the profile that will allow you to distinguish it from the other profiles. A good
choice would be guest-system.
b. For the Base Channel field, select Red Hat Enterprise Linux $PRODUCT (v.5 for $ARCH)
where $ARCH is the architecture of your host system's operating system and $PRODUCT is
either Server or Client.
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