Re: [Xen-API] making it easier to install VMs on XCP

["Jakob Praher" <jakob@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Scott,

this would be really great! Also adapting the disk size would be great feature 
to pass as option (to override the template settings).
Back in my plain Xen days, I was using xen-tools which is using plain 
deboostrap for bootrstrapping plus a set of scripts to adapt the image (mount 
the disk and patch config files).

Passing parameters to the installer via kernel params is tedious.
What are your concrete plans? Maybe using deboostrap on a vdi plugged to the 
control domain is a cheap work-around.

Best,
Jakob

 
Am Dienstag, 29. November 2011 12:06 CET, Dave Scott <Dave.Scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
schrieb: 
 
> Hi,
> 
> I've been chatting to various people about ways of making it easier to 
> install VMs (particularly Linux ones) on XCP. If you're a CLI user then it 
> takes quite a few steps to (eg) set up a network install of a debian VM. I 
> think we can make this a lot simpler; I've made some notes on the wiki:
> 
> http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Making_it_easier_to_install_VMs_on_XCP
> 
> It would be awesome if you could install a VM like this:
> 
> # xe vm-install template="Debian 6.0" new-name-label=debian auto-install=true
> # xe vm-start vm=debian
> 
> And have sensible defaults (e.g. network URL, preseed file) used throughout.
> 
> Let me know what you think!
> 
> Cheers,
> Dave
> 
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