Satellite 6: Supported virtual drivers for Bootdisk

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Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite 6.2
  • VMWare
  • RHEV / oVirt
  • libvirt

Issue

Satellite 6 supports Bootdisk provisioning based via iPXE or SYSLINUX for PXE-less and/or DHCP-less environments. Not all emulated virtualization drivers are compatible tho, this articles provides list of verified hypervisors and driver combinations which allows Bootdisk provisioning with Satellite 6.2.

The following bootdisk images work with these drivers:

  • Host image
  • Generic image
  • Full host image
  • Subnet image

Resolution

Hypervisor Driver implementation Support status
VMWare 5.5 VMXNET3 Supported
VMWare 5.5 E1000 Supported
RHEV or libvirt VIRTIO Supported
RHEV or libvirt RTL8139 Supported
RHEV or libvirt E1000 Supported
libvirt NE2K_PCI Not supported
libvirt PCNET Not supported

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