Virtualized Guest Provisioning - Red Hat NETWORK SATELLITE 5.3.0 Deployment Manual

• Go to Systems => Kickstart => Profiles
• Select on the desired profile
• Select System Details => File Preservation
• Select your file preservation list
Note
File preservation lists are only available on Wizard-style kickstarts and are only available
during re-provisioning.

5.8.3. Virtualized Guest Provisioning

The following forms of Virtual Guest Provisioning is supported in Satellite 5.3:
• KVM Virtualized Guest
• Xen Fully-Virtualized Guest
• Xen Para-Virtualized Guest
Virtualization Type is set when when creating your kickstart profile. To provision a guest regardless of
its type, follow the following steps:
1. Ensure the host system has a Virutalization or Virtualization Platform system entitlement
2. Go to the Guest Provisioning page at Systems => click on the desired virtual host =>
Virtualization => Provisioning
3. Select the kickstart profile you would like and enter a guest name
4. Select Schedule Kickstart and Finish
If you would like to configure additional parameters such as guest memory and cpu usage, simply click
on the Advanced Configuration button. The following can be configured:
• Network (static/DHCP)
• Kernel Options
• Package profile sync (When the kickstart finishes the system will sync its package profile to that of
another system or stored profile)
• Memory Allocation (RAM, Default of 512MB)
• Virtual Disk Size
• Virtual CPUs (Default of 1)
• Virtual Bridge (The networking bridge used for the install. xenbr0 is the default for Xen provisioning
and virbr0 is the default for KVM. Note that virbr0 is not an actual bridge, so in that case it is
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