[Xen-users] Re: Bare Metal Installation of Xen

[Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 06:28:15PM -0700, Chris de Vidal wrote:
> --- Javier Guerra <javier@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Saturday 03 June 2006 10:07 pm, Chris de Vidal wrote:
> > > To more directly address the first question, has anyone built a "host" OS
> > > (Dom0) + Xen kernel CD for unattended bare-metal installs?  That would
> > 
> > i guess any LiveCD with the right tools would work.  no need to boot a xen 
> > kernel to install one.
> 
> No I mean unattended bare-metal installs.  Key word is unattended, or very 
> minimal interaction.

I've built a customised install CD that asks for IP/netmask/gateway/DNS, and
requires you run one shell script afterwards to finish things off.  Based on
Ubuntu Breezy via Instalinux (http://instalinux.com/).  I could get rid of
the manual shell script (and make it an automated part of the process) if I
added asking for hostname and domain name in the install phase.  I kept that
out of it because the first stage install from the CD is done by
non-technical bods (data centre staff).

The install CD isn't really Xen-specific, but part of what the post-install
shell script does is install Puppet, which has all the rules in it such
that, if I say that a particular machine is a Xen dom0, then gosh-darnit, it
will be!  All up, it's about as automated as I'm really comfortable with.

- Matt

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