Linux

So part one finished up with a Virtualbox VM , two blank disk and the OEL CD image in the virtual CD drive. Fair warning I have taken some liberty with technical preciseness of handsfree, but it’s pretty close. If some knows how I can second commands to the guest from the host command line let me know, virt-install maybe. So this is straight forward and I have covered some of these techniques in other posts like Kickstart for Solaris Admins or my even older Grub menu reinstall. Startup the VB guest it should boot off your attached CD/DVD image. and the welcome screen press TAB key

Rather than wait until I have the whole thing polished I thought I’d do a multipart entry on building Oracle VM Manager VM and installing the software. Now the previous version 3.0.3 had a VirtualBox template available. The current version 3.1.1 doesn’t, at least not that I can find, so this is a kinda of roll your own template. Tools used for this job: Virtual Box 4.1.8 Oracle VM Manager ISO 3.1.1 OEL R6U1 ISO

Linux kickstart for Solaris Admin’sSo sometimes Solaris Admins need to turn their hand at another OS for various reasons, especial in this day and age of mass production of virtual environments. Solaris Admins will be well versed with jumpstart a tried and truly tested system of automated builds for over a decade now. While recently this system has been thrown out with the bath water for AI in Solaris 11 and while the jury is still out on that one that’s a conversation for another time. ...

So I have a couple of machine’s I’m reinstalling on a regular basis as part of some on going work. Unfortunately PXE booting is not an option for them so it been a process of attaching a virtual CDROM image and then typing in a bunch of kickstart parameters at the boot menu. Well had enough, time to be a better way. I’m aware of the “remote control” for anaconda so it was time to make it work for me.

Managing Linux in production environments.