First, register your host system to your Satellite. Use ssh to connect to your host system. Register your host system to your satellite issuing the following command as root:

	      rhnreg_ks
	      --serverUrl=htt://your-satellite.example.com/XMLRPC \
	      --username=username --password=password

Next, open up the host system's profile in the Satellite web interface. Log into the web interface of your Satellite at https://your-satellite.example.com/. Click on the Systems tab in the top red navigation bar. You should see the host system you just registered — click on its profile name to access its system profile page.

Add a provisioning entitlement to your host system. From your host system profile page, click on Details ⇒ Properties tab. Check the Provisioning checkbox in the Add-On Entitlements field, and click the Update Properties button in the lower right hand corner of the screen.

Next, schedule the kickstart. You are brought back to the host system's profile page. You should now see a Provisioning tab in the system profile. Click on this tab. This should bring up the Schedule Kickstart page for the system.

Select the kickstart profile we created for this host earlier. Then, select the Schedule Kickstart and Finish button in the lower right-hand corner of the screen.

After scheduling the kickstart, you will be taken to a Kickstart Status screen in the Satellite's web interface. Keep your web browser open to that page to follow along with the host system's progress.

Use ssh to connect to the host system, and run the command rhn_check. This should cause the kickstart process to behind immediately rather than the next time the rhn_check process runs on the system. You should immediately see output indicating the start of a kickstart process on the host system, and it will eventually warn you that the system is going dow for reboot in three minutes.

After three minutes have passed, the system will reboot. Follow the progress of the kickstart via the Satellite web interface.

Depending on various factors, the kickstart process may take between ten and thirty minutes. At the end of this time period, the Satellite kickstart status page should indicate if the kickstart finished successfully.

You will find an ISO to create a boot CD for you host by using ssh to log into your Satellite. It is at the following location on your satellite:

/var/satellite/rhn/kickstart/ks-rhel-i386-server-5/images/boot.iso

For details on how to use this ISO image to burn a CD using Linux, please refer to the following Red Hat Knowledgebase Article:

http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_80_446.shtm

If you must burn this ISO image to CD using another operating system, please refer to the following Knowledgebase Article:

http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_35_1897.shtm

Insert the boot CD in the drive and reboot the system, making sure the CD-ROM drive is set as the primary boot device in the system's' BIOS.

After reboot, you should find yourself at a boot prompt. Type the following command at this prompt to start your kickstart:

linux \
ks=http://your-satellite.example.com/iskcstart/ks/label/the profile label you created earlier

The kickstart for your host system should begin. It should take around fifteen minutes to complete. Upon successful completion of this kickstart, you will have provisioned a host system for your virtual guest and registered it to you Satellite.

Fist, register your host system to your Satellite. Use ssh to connect to your host system. Register your host system to your satellite issuing the following command as root:

rhnref_ks --serverUrl=http://your-satellite.example.com/XMLRPC \
--username=username --password=password

Next, open up the host system's profile in the Satellite web interface. Log into the web interface of your Satellite at https://your-satellite.example.com/. Click on the Systems tab in the top red navigational bar. You should see the host system you just registered - click on its profile name to access its system profile page.

Make sure your system has access to the software channels it needs to access the software required for hosting virtual guests. From your host system's profile page, click on the Alter Channel Subscriptions link in the upper right side of the profile page under the Subscribed Channels header. Check the RHEL Virtualization and Red Hat Network Tools for RHEL Server checkboxes and click the Change Subscriptions button underneath the list of channels.

Next, check to see if you have the necessary software installed for hosting virtual guest on the system. On the host system, issue the following command as root:

rpm -q xen kernel-xen rhn-virtualization-host

If rpm indicates these packages are not installed, you must install them by running the following command as root on the system:

yum install dxen kernel-xen rhn-virtualization-host

You will then need to edit the /etc/grub.conf configuration file to boot the new xen kernel by default. To do this, select the lines in grub.conf that pertain to the xen kernel from the beginning of the title line to the end of the initrd line, copy the lines, delete them, and paste them so they are the first kernel entry in grub.conf. Also ensure that the value of the default variable at the top of grub.conf is set to a value of '0'.

Reboot the system, boot it into the xen kernel. The system should not automatically boot into the xen kernel on reboot but if you would like to make sure it has for troubleshooting purposes, use the command uname -r to see if the running kernel is a xen kernel. If you do not see the xen string in the name of the kernel, you have not booted into the correct kernel.

You will also need to install and run the osad package in order for your host system to be responsive to commands sent from the Satellite, such as start, pause, resume, and shutdown. To install:

yum install -y osad

after installation, you should then start the osad process:

/sbin/service osad restart

Your host system should now be ready for RHN virtual guest provisioning.