Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 491292
Cobbler buildiso produces an iso image that does not work on KVM and VMWare-ESX
Last modified: 2009-03-20 08:02:18 EDT
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:
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.