[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk and VMware Templates

[Kobus Bensch]

Hi

I use a similar method except, and this is more vmware than spacewalk or 
centos, I use the VMware tools to provision the server after it has been 
cloned from the template. It registers the machine in spacewalk, 
downloads and installs all patches, reboots, updates the vmware tools 
and lastly it changes the root password.

Kobus

On 11/10/2015 17:21, Alexander Dacre wrote:
>
> Hi Folks,
>
>
> We're a big VMware shop here, and we use Spacewalk to manage our fleet 
> of CentOS servers. At the moment we have a golden template VM 
> (basically 6.7 minimal) with some wizardry in roots cron file - it 
> executes some commands on @reboot and then truncates the file. This 
> results in any new servers deployed from this template being 
> registered in Spacewalk.
>
>
> Is there a better way to do this? Ideally I would like to use 
> kickstart, but it isn't an option in our environment ☹
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alex
>
>
>
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