Kickstarting ESX VMs and Physical Hosts -- Knowing Which is Which

UPDATE: This method also does not work. Sorry.

Cobbler and kickstarting is my new cool toy.  I tinker with it FAR too much. I had a problem, though, that I need to install the vmware tools only on the VMs, and install smartmontools only on the physical hosts.  What's a guy to do?

After some digging, coding, hacking, testing, cursing, I finally discovered a decent switch I can use to identify a box by its mac.

Then I lost that code.

So I found another method.  This one's ugly as sin, but it may actually work.  Check this nasty-ass kung-fu:

#if ":".join($interfaces.eth0.mac_address.split(':')[0:3]) in "00:50:56 00:0C:29"

[code]

#end if

Yeah.  That's one ugly baby.  If Blogspot again truncates that line all to hell, remember the #if statement is all on the first line of 3.

Now to see how well it works.