in your environment so that virsh does KVM/QEMU things by default.
- 2) You need a caching web proxy on your local network. If you don't
- have one, then install a squid proxy on your host. See
- host_setup/etc/squid/squid.conf for a sample config suitable for a
- virtual cluster. Make sure it caches large objects and has plenty
- of space. This will be needed to make downloading all the RPMs to
- each client sane
+ 2) If your install server is far away then you may need a caching web
+ proxy on your local network.
+
+ If you don't have one, then you can install a squid proxy on your
+ host amd set:
+
+ WEBPROXY="http://10.0.0.1:3128/"
+
+ See host_setup/etc/squid/squid.conf for a sample config suitable
+ for a virtual cluster. Make sure it caches large objects and has
+ plenty of space. This will be needed to make downloading all the
+ RPMs to each client sane
To test your squid setup, run a command like this:
# several G of cache You can choose to have no web proxy at all, in
# which case set it to the empty string, and hope you have a fast
# network connection to the install server
-defconf WEBPROXY "http://10.0.0.1:3128/" \
+defconf WEBPROXY "" \
"<url>" "URL of a caching web proxy"
defconf GATEWAY "10.0.0.1" \