This past week at the  Red Hat summit I got the chance to demonstrate Enterprise IPA, the Red Hat version of FreeIPA, at the Red Hat booth.  One of the aspects of IPA we want to showcase is registering client systems.  That means that I wanted to be able to get a client system in the pre-installed state pretty very quickly.  My approach was to use Qemu/KVM virtual machines.  I had one VM image that I did not touch, and all the rest of the virtual machines will be snapshots that overlay that image.

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