Bug 1029819

Summary: Creating kickstart of virt type "Xen Para-Virtualized Guest" for EL6 fails.
Product: Red Hat Satellite 5 Reporter: Dimitar Yordanov <dyordano>
Component: ProvisioningAssignee: Jan Dobes <jdobes>
Status: CLOSED DEFERRED QA Contact: Red Hat Satellite QA List <satqe-list>
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Description Dimitar Yordanov 2013-11-13 10:01:26 UTC
Description of problem:
Creating kickstart of Virtualization Type "Xen Para-Virtualized Guest" and base channel RHEL6 x86_64 fails.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
spacewalk-java-2.0.2-46
cobbler-2.0.7-37

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Sync EL6 to Satellite 5.6
     nohup satellite-sync -c rhel-x86_64-server-6 &
2. Try to create kickstart:
    Systems -> Kickstart -> create new kickstart profile
      Base Channel* : Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v.6 for 64-bit x86_64)
      Virtualization Type: Xen Para-Virtualized Guest


Actual results:
Selected kickstartable tree isn't available at the moment. Please check cobbler functionality.

Expected results:
No message.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Stephen Herr 2014-07-01 19:19:23 UTC
Xen support was dropped in favor of KVM in RHEL 6. The "fix" should be to hide the invalid xen options if this is a RHEL 6 or higher base channel.

Comment 2 Tomas Lestach 2015-11-16 16:07:55 UTC
Resetting to default owner.

Comment 3 Tomas Lestach 2018-04-09 11:03:02 UTC
We have re-reviewed this bug, as part of an ongoing effort to improve Satellite/Proxy feature and bug updates, review and backlog.

This is a low priority bug and has no currently open customer cases. While this bug may still valid, we do not see it being implemented prior to the EOL of the Satellite 5.x product. As such, this is being CLOSED DEFERRED. 

Closing now to help set customer expectations as early as possible. You are welcome to re-open this bug if needed.