Bug 491292

Summary:	Cobbler buildiso produces an iso image that does not work on KVM and VMWare-ESX
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Egon Kastelijn <redhat2>
Component:	cobbler	Assignee:	Michael DeHaan <mdehaan>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Egon Kastelijn 2009-03-20 09:23:28 UTC

Description of problem:
When a Cobbler iso image is generated on the Cobbler server and that iso image is used to boot a virtual guest on KVM or VMWare-ESX then the guest machine does boot, but hangs with the error:
FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i586/modules.dep: No such file or directory

Cobbler buildiso generates an initrd that does not contain the specified directory /lib/modules/2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i586/.
It does contain the directory: /lib/modules/2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686.PAE/.

Info:
Cobbler server: Fedora10
Cobbler 'system to be installed': Fedora10 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Name        : cobbler
Version     : 1.4.3
Release     : 4.fc10

How reproducible:
See below.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Cobbler on Fedora10
2. Import Fedora10 into Cobbler as a distribution
   cobbler import --path=/var/www/html/linux/fedora/10/i386/ --name=Fedora-10-i386 --available-as=http://145.52.5.201/linux/fedora/10/i386/
2. Run the command 'cobbler buildiso --iso=/cobblertest.iso' on the Cobbler serer 
3. Boot the virtual guest from the generated iso image.
  
Actual results:
The guest machine is unable to start its network interface because it can not load the driver for the network interface.
On the 3rd console (ALT-F3) is the message:
FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.27.5-116.fc10.i586/modules.dep: No such file or directory

Expected results:
A normal Cobbler-based install over the network.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Michael DeHaan 2009-03-20 12:02:18 UTC

The only supported VMware mechanism is koan "--virt".

There is no ESX support in koan at this time.  This is something many folks on the list/IRC have talked about adding, but has not been done yet for various implementation reasons.