Description of problem: koan creates an i386 guest even if the install tree of the ks profile given is one for x86_64. As a result, the guest fails to install. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): koan-2.4.0-1.fc18.noarch python-2.7.3-13.fc18.x86_64 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create a kickstart profile on Spacewalk or RHN Satellite for an x86_64 OS (rhel-x86_64-server-6 for instance) 2. Try to install an instance of the above profile with koan: # koan --server=satellite.example.com --virt --profile=sample-profile:1:YourOrganization 3. Actual results: Guest starts but fails to install. # koan --server=sat.34x27.org --virt --profile=puppet-clients:1:RedHatConsultantsGPS-APAC - looking for Cobbler at http://sat.34x27.org:80/cobbler_api - reading URL: http://sat.34x27.org/cblr/svc/op/ks/profile/puppet-clients:1:RedHatConsultantsGPS-APAC install_tree: http://sat.34x27.org/ks/dist/ks-rhel-x86_64-server-6-6.4 - ['qemu-img', 'create', '-f', 'raw', '/var/lib/libvirt/images//Fri_Sep_27_18_38_08_2013-disk0', '3G'] Formatting '/var/lib/libvirt/images//Fri_Sep_27_18_38_08_2013-disk0', fmt=raw size=3221225472 - adding disk: /var/lib/libvirt/images//Fri_Sep_27_18_38_08_2013-disk0 of size 3 (driver type=raw) - ['virt-install', '--connect', 'qemu:///system', '--name', 'Fri_Sep_27_18_38_08_2013', '--ram', '512', '--vcpus', '1', '--autostart', '--vnc', '--virt-type', 'qemu', '--machine', 'pc', '--hvm', '--extra-args=ks=http://sat.34x27.org/cblr/svc/op/ks/profile/puppet-clients:1:RedHatConsultantsGPS-APAC ksdevice=link kssendmac lang= text ', '--location', 'http://sat.34x27.org/ks/dist/ks-rhel-x86_64-server-6-6.4/', '--arch', 'i386', '--os-variant', 'generic26', '--disk', 'path=/var/lib/libvirt/images//Fri_Sep_27_18_38_08_2013-disk0,size=3,format=raw', '--network', 'bridge=virbr0', '--wait', '0', '--noautoconsole'] Note the '--arch i386' argument given to virt-install above. Expected results: Ideally, koan should extract the architecture from the URI to the kickstart tree, or at least there should be a way to instruct koan to create a 64-bit guest instead of 32-bit one (or maybe it should defaults to creating 64-bit guests since 64-bit guests should be able to run and install 32-bit OSes?). Additional info: I took a look at koan source and straced it. It does not seem to get the arch by running 'uname -m' as written in the app.py, which implies that it sets ANCIENT_PYTHON to 1 whereas the actual python version is not quite ancient (2.7.3-13.fc18). Maybe the way app.py detects ancient versions of python no longer works with newer python versions?
I've been doing some diggin' on this, and it turns out this is not a koan bug, but there is a dict entry 'arch':'i386' in the profile data koan receives from cobbler via xmlrpc (that happens to be Satellite 5.4). Now I have to figure out how to override this parameter for my guest profile...