Setting Up Your Virtual Systems; Create A Kickstart Profile For The Guest Systems - Red Hat NETWORK SATELLITE 5.3.0 Reference Manual

10.2. 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.

10.2.1. 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 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 $PRODUCT is
either Server or Client.
Note
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client 5 may not be available for selection if you did not
sync the Client software channels to your Satellite.
Tip
Please note that the channel labels for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 5 Desktop refer to 'server' and 'client' respectively.
c. For the Kickstartable Tree field, you should select ks-rhel-$ARCH-$PRODUCT-5 where
$ARCH is the architecture of your host system and $PRODUCT is either 'server' or 'client',
depending on which product with which you would like to provision your guest.
d. Select Para-Virtualized Guest for the Virtualization Type field.
Note
If you are changing the Virtualization Type of an existing kickstart profile, it may
also modify the bootloader and partition options, potentially overwriting any user
customizations. Be sure to review the Partitioning tab to verify these settings
when changing the Virtualization Type.
e. Finally, click the Next button in the lower right of the screen to continue on to the next step.
4. For Step 2 of the kickstart profile creation process, select the location of the distribution files for
the installation of your guest system. There should already be a Default Download Location filled
out and selected for you on this screen. Click the Next button on this screen to continue to Step 3.
Kickstart from the left navigation bar.
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