[Spacewalk-list] API Call system.provisionVirtualGuest - Spacewalk 1.6

[Tomas Lestach]

On Thursday 26 of January 2012 23:21:43 Peter Purvis wrote:
> I'm attempting to create a new virtual system using the following xmlrpc
> command in ruby:
> 
>     spacewalk.call("system.provisionVirtualGuest",token, {kvm-host-id}, "
> test.example.com" ,"CentOS-5-5-x86_64-kvm")
> 
> I get the following error:
> 
>      Could not find the needed Spacewalk provisioning packages given this
> system's current base channel and desired target channel: {0}


If I remember well, this message is displayed, when spacewalk-koan isn't 
found. It needs to be in one of the channels the system is currently 
subscribed to or in any child channel (of the current base ch.) the server can 
be subscribed to - in that case the server would be subscribed to such a child 
channel automatically.

Last time I just created a child channel with spacewalk-koan packages and it 
worked for me.

> 
> The base channel and the target channel have both koan and spacewalk-koan
> in the repo now that I have rhnpush'ed them in.
> 
> a. Do I need this system to be in the cobbler database or in spacewalk
> before it can be provisioned?

No, the API creates cobbler system record for you.

The other option would be to try it over WebUI.

Regards,
Tomas
-- 
Tomas Lestach
RHN Satellite Engineering, Red Hat

> If so, how can I do that for a brand new
> system, all I can find is system.createSystemRecord which requires the
> systemID of an existing spacewalk system, not something I have in this
> instance.
> b. Is there something I'm missing here? Can I not just throw a new system
> at spacewalk with a guestname only? If so, what is the process to add a
> system to spacewalk and have it provisioned on a virtual host.
> 
> Thanks for any help!