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Re: [Xen-devel] About XCP?

To: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>

Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:21:48 +0800

Cc: "Xen-Devel \(E-mail\)" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Stephen Spector <stephen.spector@xxxxxxxxxx>

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I see. Thank you all!

Best,

2009/12/17 Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>

On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 15:19 +0000, Stephen Spector wrote:
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> > In XCP document, there are many points refering to Linux
> Pack and the document tell "Installing Linux VMs requires >the Linux
> Pack to be installed onto the Xen Cloud Platform
> host." But it doesn't tell where to get the "Linux Pack" and I failed
> to find any link to Linux Pack from
> http://www.xen.org/products/cloud_source.html. Have anyone experience
> the same problem please? Could someone give some msg pls?
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> This is something I missed when doing the transition of documents from
> Citrix XenServer to Open Source XCP. The Linux Pack refers only to the
> templates-- these just make installing linux convenient. I will remove
> the information from the documents.

Actually the templates are part of base XCP and you can install a Linux
distro from upstream media (or network mirror) without the Linux pack.

The Linux pack is a XenServer-ism which contains only the prepackaged
Debian Etch template filesystem.

Ian.

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> Thanks.
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> Stephen Spector
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