I installed Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) following the steps in
the XCP Installation Guide. Next I want to install two VMs (SLES 10 and Windows
Server 2003) to use as a testing platform for a product under
development.
The XCP Virtual Machine Installation Guide states that "The Windows VM can
be installed either from an install CD in a physical CD-ROM on the Xen Cloud
Platform host, or from an ISO image of your Windows media." I
would like to install from the install CD. My question though is
how? I don't see a series of basic steps in the guide. The guide
earlier states that VMs are installed from templates. So I installed the
template for Windows Server 2003 SP2 using the XE tool:
xe vm-install new-name-label=<name>
template-uuid=<uuid_of_desired_template>
If I issue xe vm-list I can see the template installed. It lists:
uuid (
RO)
: 1bd800c9-4ccf-a786-6436-a34a3eec108c
name-label ( RW): Windows Server 2003
power-state: ( RO): running
That seems well and good. But now I'm really stuck as to what the next step is
to install the Windows Server 2003 from CD. I've looked through all the
xe VM commands in the Reference guide for clues which I'm sure are there and
obvious to the more experienced of you out there. I'm new to this domain and
have been asked to explore it by my team as a potential platform for our
testing purposes.
Take a look at http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2010/03/19/xcp-tutorial-creation-of-a-windows-7-guest/
which has the instructions I used to install Win7 from a CD on XCP. Thanks.
Stephen Spector
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