From 02b1e2e2ba29aea32d2e58383d47393eabe7895f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: vallard <vallard@8638fb3e-16cb-4fca-ae20-7b5d299a9bcd>
Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 20:22:40 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] added helpful hints for kvm hypervisor installations

git-svn-id: https://svn.code.sf.net/p/xcat/code/xcat-core/trunk@3365 8638fb3e-16cb-4fca-ae20-7b5d299a9bcd
---
 xCAT-server/share/xcat/install/rh/kvm.tmpl | 20 +++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/xCAT-server/share/xcat/install/rh/kvm.tmpl b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/install/rh/kvm.tmpl
index 9e0b52549..b6ae64404 100644
--- a/xCAT-server/share/xcat/install/rh/kvm.tmpl
+++ b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/install/rh/kvm.tmpl
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 #egan@us.ibm.com
-#
+# read more on installing KVM here:
+# http://xcat.wiki.sourceforge.net/KVM+
 
 lang en_US
 langsupport en_US
@@ -12,6 +13,13 @@ network --bootproto dhcp
 #nfs --server #XCATVAR:INSTALL_NFS# --dir #XCATVAR:INSTALL_SRC_DIR#
 url --url http://#TABLE:noderes:$NODE:nfsserver#/install/#TABLE:nodetype:$NODE:os#/#TABLE:nodetype:$NODE:arch#
 
+# For KVM to install properly you need to install other packages from 
+# another installation repository.  Usually we create a directory:
+# /install/xcat with all of the xCAT rpms in there.  Then after doing
+# mklocalrep your machine that is installing can get these.  An example:
+# repo --name=xcat-dep --baseurl=http://#TABLE:noderes:$NODE:nfsserver#/install/xcat/xcat-dep/rh5/#TABLE:nodetype:$NODE:arch#
+
+
 #device ethernet e100
 keyboard "us"
 
@@ -152,6 +160,16 @@ sendmail-cf
 openssh-server
 util-linux
 screen
+bridge-utils
+dnsmasq
+# you also need to install these packages, if you set up your
+# repo as explained above, then you can get them from your management
+# server:
+#iscsi-initiator-utils
+#kvm
+#perl-Sys-Virt
+#libvirt.x86_64
+#gpxe-kvm
 %pre
 #INCLUDE:#ENV:XCATROOT#/share/xcat/install/scripts/pre.rh#
 %post