8.1.1. Create a Kickstart Profile for the Guest Systems
Login to the Satellite's web interface. Navigate to the Kickstart Overview screen by clicking the Manage Kickstarts link in the Tasks widget in Your RHN, or by clicking on the Systems tab, followed by the Kickstart subtab in the left navigation bar.
On the Kickstart Overview page, click the Create a New Kickstart Profile link in the Kickstart Actions widget in the upper right corner.
You should now find yourself on Step 1 of the kickstart profile creation process:
Enter a label for your profile that will enable you to distinguish it from your other profiles. For the remaining instructions, we'll assume the label is host-system-for-virtual-guests.
For the Base Channel field, select Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v.5 for $ARCH) (where $ARCH is the architecture of your host system.
You may install 32-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 on a 64-bit host system. If you choose to do this, however, please be aware that your guest systems must also run the 32-bit version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
In the Kickstartable Tree field, select ks-rhel-$ARCH-server-5 where $ARCH is the architecture of your host system.
Please select Para-Virtualized Host for the Virtualization Type field.
Finally, click the Next button in the lower right of the screen to continue on to the next step.
If any of the fields are missing the options indicated above, you may not have successfully synced software channel content to your Satellite from Red Hat's servers.
For Step 2 of the kickstart profile creation process, select the location of the distribution files for the installation of your host system. There should already be a Default Download Location filled out and selected for you on this screen. Click the Next button on this screen to continue to Step 3.
As in the previous step, if the default download location is missing, you may not have successfully synced software channel content to your Satellite from Red Hat's server.
For Step 3 of the kickstart profile creation process, please choose a root password to set on the host system you will be provisioning, and click Next to finish creation of the profile.
This completes kickstart profile creation. After completing Step 3, you are taken to the newly-created kickstart profile. You may browse through the various tabs of the profile and modify the settings as you see fit, but this is not necessary as the default settings should work well for the majority of cases.