Foreman Host provisioning

Hi Team

I am new to Foreman

Clearly understood the reporting and Configuration.
But not clear on provisioning and I need help or link to documentation.

What I did is till now … I installed foreman on Oracle Virtuval machine VM
and trying to provisioning a new VM from the foreman VM using bare metal

I did all steps to create a new VM from host section as per documentation
but its showing always pending for installation since two days. and I
restarted the foreman machine also. But no luck.

Can you redirect me to right direction.

Some of other questions… If I am going to provisioning a new host/VM…
will it automatically creates new VM … how this will work… or do i need
to create a VM and give the mac address and ip details while creating.

Can you please help me here?

Hello,

Foreman can talk to various virtualizations like libvirt or oVirt, but
not to Oracle Virtual VM unfortunately.

What you need to do is to create new VM and write down the VM MAC
address of the interface that is connected to network with Foreman. Do
not start it.

Then Create host, configure it and set MAC address of the provisioning
inteface, Submit. Then turn on your VM and it should start PXE booting
there.

There is one important thing - the virtual network (assuming you are
using that) must have DHCP turned off and your Foreman DHCP and TFTP
server must be configured and enabled responding to DHCP/PXE requests
on that network. I suggest you to create "Isolated virtual network"
for that purpose, or it can be NAT but make sure there is no Oracle
DHCP running there.

LZ

··· On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 5:50 PM, Phani Kumar wrote: > Hi Team > > I am new to Foreman > > Clearly understood the reporting and Configuration. > But not clear on provisioning and I need help or link to documentation. > > What I did is till now .. I installed foreman on Oracle Virtuval machine VM > and trying to provisioning a new VM from the foreman VM using bare metal > > I did all steps to create a new VM from host section as per documentation > but its showing always pending for installation since two days. and I > restarted the foreman machine also. But no luck. > > Can you redirect me to right direction. > > Some of other questions.. If I am going to provisioning a new host/VM.. > will it automatically creates new VM .. how this will work.. or do i need to > create a VM and give the mac address and ip details while creating. > > Can you please help me here? > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Foreman users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to foreman-users+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to foreman-users@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/foreman-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.


Later,
Lukas @lzap Zapletal