Feature #14193
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OVA provisioning support
Description
We are using foreman quite heavily, mostly provisioning/installing from ISO. We are now building OVA files and would like to be able to provision all the VMs from OVA.
Is there a plan to add this feature?
Thanks
Updated by Dominic Cleal almost 9 years ago
- Category set to Compute resources
Which compute resource type is this for? It might be that you can already use vSphere or similar by loading it in as a template.
Updated by Adrianus G almost 9 years ago
Dominic Cleal wrote:
Which compute resource type is this for? It might be that you can already use vSphere or similar by loading it in as a template.
Thanks Dominic for your interest.
The compute resource is VMWARE, foreman version is 1.8.2. I have been successful in uploading the OVA to vsphere. From there it can be converted into template and a foreman image can point to that. Even with this method, I'm having problems associating the vm with a foreman host using REST API - it only supports associating all the VMs and this one fails on "interfaces should have vm or template". Through the GUI I have no problem since it can be done at virtual machine level.
I am looking for an all included package in foreman, something like build_method=ova.
Updated by Dominic Cleal almost 9 years ago
- Category changed from Compute resources to Compute resources - VMware
Please try a more current release, that association issue may well have been fixed - either in a later 1.8 release or 1.9, 1.10 or 1.11. If it remains, please file a new bug report for it.
Updated by Adrianus G almost 9 years ago
Dominic Cleal wrote:
Please try a more current release, that association issue may well have been fixed - either in a later 1.8 release or 1.9, 1.10 or 1.11. If it remains, please file a new bug report for it.
We are in the process of configuring a new foreman server with 1.10.1 version. The thing is the described mechanism to install from OVA is too complex and was looking for a simple solution from foreman
Updated by Dan Dunckel over 8 years ago
I haven't thought thru this yet, but would there be a way to configure the OVA's guest properties?