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More here: http://wiki.cloudstack.org/display/DesignDocs/Adding+support+to+your+PXE+provisioning+software+in+CloudStack+Baremetal

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#Add this at the end of the file, the root share folder/name is Share

Wiki Markup\[Share\]    path = /sambashare    writable = yes    guest ok = yes    guest only = yes    create mode = 0777    directory mode = 0777    share modes = ]
   path = /sambashare
   writable = yes
   guest ok = yes
   guest only = yes
   create mode = 0777
   directory mode = 0777
   share modes = yes

Template Creation

Install an OS on one server that is identical (resources, disk etc.) to the servers which will be eventually used as baremetal hosts which are servers on which an OS is provisioned using IPMI/PXE.

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Name	Comment/Vendor	License	WWW	PXE/IPMI	NFS/CIFS	ISO Provisioning	Image Provisioning Backup/Restore	Notification | Post-script	API/Docs	Ease of Setup/Use	Development	Consideration
PING	Used by CloudStack 2.2.14		GPL	http://ping.windowsdream.com/ping.html	YES	Only CIFS/Samba	YES (Unreliable)	YES PartImage	No | No?	Okay	Easy if everything Works	Inactive (~2007) Perl based Old, unreliable	NO
LinMing	LinMing	Proprietary	-http://www.linmin.com-	YES	N/A		N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	NO
Cobbler	Fedora/RedHat, now on Github	GPL	https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/wiki Image Removed	YES							Active Python based
CrowBar2	OpenStack/Dell	Apache2	https://github.com/dellcloudedge/crowbar Image Removed								Very Active Python	Likely
Razor	Puppet										Active	Likely
Foreman	Works with Puppet	GPL3	http://theforeman.org Image Removed					Notification API! Have to check :D
MAAS/JUJU	Ubuntu/Canonical	GPL3	https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam/MAAS Image Removed	YES		YES	TODO				Active Python/Go based	Unlikely
Kickstart/Jumpstart
SpaceWalk
iPXE/gPXE (ISO)	The Etherboot Project Community		http://ipxe.org Image Removed	YES
Clonezilla			http://clonezilla.org/downloads/stable/iso-zip-files.php Image Removed

TODO TODOS:

- Evaluate all of them and ipmitool vs. gnuipmi vs. own java implementation of ipmitool

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