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Hi thedude_

I've just downloaded 1.4 (the ESX specific version) and had a quick play.

It looks like an excellent app - just what I was after (I had been looking at trying to implement something similar myself - I'd only got as far as creating a linux server, loading tftp and pxelinux though - and as I'm from a Windows background it would probably have been an interesting but lengthy task...)

I've got as far as kicking off the ESX install on a test VM - I hope to have a physical box to test further on by tomorrow - seems to work perfectly and it was very easy to configure.

I have four questions:

1) I couldn't get the gateway option to work in system, network settings.

If I enter a gateway address, I see it running a script but it doesn't seem to work - or even show it afterwards.

I have got round it manually by adding it to /etc/sysconfig/network.

The script seems to be trying to add it to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0. But if I check in vi nothing is written to there?

2) I've added a second disk to my UDA VM to hold the ESX ISO.

I've configured the UDA OS option to use this ISO

If I then use the ESX template wizard and use the http default - it works perfectly.

I thought maybe I'd try the "local" option just to remove the additional dependencies on http.

The template wizard then prompts for a partition and directory.

I wasn't certain what to enter but tried:

/dev/sdb1

/var/public/smbmount/DISK2

When I look in the .cfg it doesn't include these params and defaults to a cdrom install which fails with no media.

Again - easy to get round by sticking to http - but I just wondered how it was designed to work with the "local" option?

3) I know the VM is called uda14-esx, and the Fedora hostname in UDA.

I wondered it it would cause any problem to the UDA app if I change the name of the VM and more importantly the hostname of the Fedora OS to tie in with our company naming conventions? I presume there are no dependencies on the hostname in the UDA app?

4) I was hoping to include an automatic PXE boot system for some of our RHEL VMs. I'm hoping/guessing that it shouldn't be too hard to amend one of the other pre-configured Linux OS's installs (that I am unlikely to use) to be a RHEL install.

Is that correct or am I being too naive/optimistic?

Cheers

Dinny

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