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8.2.2. Provision Your Guest Systems

  1. Log into the Satellite's web interface. Browse to your host system's profile by clicking on the Systems tab in the top navigation bar, and click on the system's name.
  2. To schedule a kickstart for a guest system, go to the Virtualization ⇒ Provisioning tab in the host system's profile. For the Guest Name field choose guest1. For the Memory Allocation, Virtual CPUs, and Storage fields, the default values should be fine. Feel free to change these as desired, taking note of the advice provided for each field in the interface. For the Kickstart Profile field, select the guest system profile we created in the last step.
  3. Finally, click on the Schedule Kickstart and Finish button in the lower-right corner of the screen. You will be taken to the Kickstart Status page where you can follow along with the guest's kickstart progress. After ten to fifteen minutes the status screen should indicate the kickstart successfully completed. To view your new guest, click on the Virtualization tab of the host system's profile on the Satellite. To view a list of virtual host systems indicating which guest systems are hosted on each, navigate to Systems ⇒ Systems ⇒ Virtual Systems.

    Note

    If you do not see the Initiate a kickstart for a Xen guest message on the Kickstart Status page shortly after scheduling the kickstart of the guest, you may be missing osad on your host.
    Host systems require the osad package in order to be responsive to commands sent from the Satellite, such as start, pause, resume, and shutdown. If osad is not installed and running, the host system will not receive these commands from the web interface for 2.5 hours, or the next time that the RHN daemon runds.
    You can check whether or not osad is installing and running by checking the OSA Status field in the host system's profile on the Satellite. If the field does not exist or indicates a failure of that the system has not contact Satellite in several minutes, then you will need to install yum (using the command yum install -y osad) before you can successfully provision a guest on the host.

    Note

    You may receive the following message from the Kickstart Status page during the guest's kickstart: 
    The install process on the guest system has not communicated to RHN in
the past n minutes.  This may be due to a hung install process, or it
may just be due to a slow install because of hardware constraints.  A
log of the installation process is available, you may wish to review
it to troubleshoot this issue.
    Be patient and do not worry if you see this message unless more than twenty minutes have passed. To check if the kickstart is continuing, check the installation log to make sure there are no errors, and as you reload the Kickstart Status page check to see that the Last File Request field continues to be updated.
  4. If you would like to register additional guests to your host, repeat the steps above. It is important to remember that you can only provision one guest at a time. If you attempt to schedule a guest kickstart while another is currently taking place, the current guest kickstart process will be canceled and the new guest kickstart process will begin.
  5. View your newly-created virtual guest's system in the Satellite's web interface by clicking on the Virtualization tab in the host system's profile. Then, click on the profile name of your virtual system. You will be brought to its Satellite system profile.