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Is there a Vsphere guest provisioning equivalent to KVM's virt-install --location?

-l LOCATION , --location=LOCATION Distribution tree installtion source. virt-install can recognize certain distribution trees and fetches a bootable kernel/initrd pair to launch the install.

Using this option with KVM one can provision Linux hosts without pxeboot or maintaining VMware images.

Neil H Watson
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  • I don't think VMware vSphere has any comparable functionality. – Michael Hampton Aug 08 '16 at 20:13
  • Can you be a bit more specific please – Chopper3 Aug 08 '16 at 20:39
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    @Chopper3 KVM/libvirt has a feature where a Linux OS can be installed simply by pointing to a URL containing a mirror of that Linux distribution. – Michael Hampton Aug 08 '16 at 20:47
  • Thanks for that, didn't know that either :) - vSphere doesn't directly do that but you can deploy a template from a URL but it has to be a pre-build VM template - this could be a basic jumpstart image, you can PXE boot as you know, but otherwise I don't think it matches the same exact thing sorry. – Chopper3 Aug 09 '16 at 07:06

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