18:05:24 #startmeeting training-labs 18:05:25 Meeting started Mon Jul 4 18:05:24 2016 UTC and is due to finish in 60 minutes. The chair is rluethi. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 18:05:26 Useful Commands: #action #agreed #help #info #idea #link #topic #startvote. 18:05:28 The meeting name has been set to 'training_labs' 18:05:40 #topic PXE patch 18:06:00 preseed... 18:06:16 the spec was merged. 18:06:21 all we need is the patch now. 18:06:30 did you try the new changeset? 18:06:31 I have been trying to use preseed files instead of kickstart ones, but I can't manage to get it working... 18:06:43 not yet 18:07:10 did you try the new version I uploaded yesterday? 18:07:19 I was focusing on trying to get a basic preseed working, but for some reason I still didn't manage 18:07:30 It seems to work for me. 18:07:44 But I may be missing something. 18:07:54 actually, I think I might be doing something wrong 18:08:40 I used the preseed-all-v2.cfg file with my iso-builder script and it stops at the language prompt 18:09:08 I fixed all that. 18:09:22 aha! I'll try again :) 18:09:42 mind you, it is not elegant. 18:09:55 but it seems to work, it installs both nodes using PXE. 18:10:10 so we have a starting point to fix whatever is still missing. 18:11:42 wow! cool! :) 18:12:08 it still needs some work for baremetal (currently only on virtualbox with hostonly networking). 18:12:39 please give it a try and let me know what you find. 18:13:08 well... but that's just about adding some alternative VBoxManage command for creating a bridged interface and attaching the VM to that one... 18:13:18 I'm running it right now 18:14:07 Yes, it should not be too hard. But it needs doing and testing. And I don't have a PXE boot hardware readily available right now. 18:14:52 oh, and of course each node downloads the whole distro from the net, not speed up with basedisk (except for the pxeserver node). 18:16:22 yes... well, an rsync could be an option, but downloading it independently makes it more stand alone 18:16:54 yes, and for now I'd be happy just to have it working. 18:16:58 optimizing is for later. 18:17:27 true 18:17:48 also, did you think about how are we going to run the scripts? 18:18:17 ssh to the target as in the VMs, or with an upstart script? 18:18:41 ssh to the target. that's what it's currently doing, anyway. 18:19:36 like I said, the current version of the patch builds the complete cluster with all scripts. 18:19:41 or at least it should. 18:20:23 well.. and as the PXE server is in at the local host, we have connectivity to the targets in any case 18:21:07 yup. 18:22:39 okay, I'll wait for feedback from you (and Pranav). 18:22:49 #topic parser 18:22:55 ping dbite 18:23:20 Pranav seems to be making good progress there, I thought he would give us an update. 18:23:29 Next week, then. 18:23:42 #topic any other business 18:23:49 julenl: ? 18:25:03 yes... 18:25:15 any other issues we need to discuss? 18:25:57 hmm... 18:26:29 I'll try the new patch and let you know 18:26:41 and try to figure out about the bridged interface 18:26:59 any other idea for me to work on? 18:27:09 excellent. then you will already have material for a follow-up patch. 18:27:36 I'll let you know as soon as I have something 18:27:58 the centos port is still pending, and our new help seems to have disappeared again. 18:28:23 but with Pranav's patch, that may all happen automagically in the future. 18:28:55 I am really looking forward to trying that :) 18:28:58 I don't know what the status is there, but I expect there's still plenty to do. 18:29:23 I talked with him last week, and he seems to have it almost ready 18:29:46 once we get PXE booting with bridged networking, you could try to get ironic working. 18:29:52 just a PoC. 18:30:01 see if you can get it to run. 18:30:15 hmm... that would be interesting.. 18:30:23 yes. 18:30:34 and it's something we will need anyway. 18:31:34 it adds much more versatility 18:32:22 yes, and afaik ironic is now part of the standard install-guide. 18:33:19 it would be really cool to add LXD support too, to be able to install the whole thing maybe even on a raspberry pi 18:33:37 but well... first things first 18:33:50 rpi 2 can run kvm. 18:33:56 i tried it. 18:34:10 no need for lxd, strictly speaking. 18:34:57 unfortunately, KVM on rpi 2 is not exactly something that works out of the box with current Linux distros afaik. 18:35:56 yeah... I made a first attempt once, but didn't work, so I forgot about it 18:36:34 I had to patch the kernel to make it work. 18:38:11 anyhow, are we done? any other questions or comments? 18:38:36 not really 18:38:50 I'll test the patch and send you feedback 18:39:11 great. thank you. 18:39:27 thank you too :) 18:39:43 have a nice evening! 18:39:46 bye 18:39:47 so... next week more 18:39:51 you too 18:39:52 bye 18:39:54 #endmeeting