Hi Donny,
You're miles ahead of me! I'm only really just
starting out with Xen. All my past experience is with VMWare esxi,
however since I wish to host VMs for customers, VMWare doesn't allow
this without paying money...
My servers which will go live soon will be running
CentOS 5.5 with Gitco's 3.4.2 Xen. All the DomU images will be from
stacklet. As for storage, I think I'm eventually going to get a central
storage server, and export a few LVs via "ATA over Ethernet", as I've
heard it can be faster than iSCSI
Cheers
Jonny
Thanks. I am usually the kind of guy that can just figure stuff
out. And I have been running Xen at home for well over a year (more
like two IIRC) but I have never ventured out past "what works" and
distro supported versions till recently. My production setup at home is
still running on an ubuntu 8.04 dom0 with Xen version 3.2.1-rc1-pre.
All my domu's at home are pretty much ubuntu with the only exception
being my PBX that runs on Centos. I got that as an image from someone
else and customized it for my needs. So this foray into the bowels of
Xen has been interesting for me. Next thing to test is live migration.
I now have setup a secondary Xen server at home running Centos 5.5 with
Xen 3.4.2 from the gitco repo so I can do some testing with this. All
in all I like xen and what it can do. Just wish it was a hair easier to
figure things out!
Thanks again.
Donny B.
On 7/2/2010 11:07 AM, Jonathan Tripathy wrote:
Yes. That is exactly what I do. Make your inital LV
size 10GB. Then dd the img over to the LV. Then you can shrink/expand
LV and filesystem.
Don't worry about what's happened recently. Xen was
and still is a big learning curve for me too :)
I know it is an .img file but I should be able to simply "dd"
that to a lv and change the config accordingly if I want to use a
physical lv rather than image file correct? I know it may seem obvious
but I think after the fight I have had trying to setup the regular way
I make no assumptions. Thanks in advance.
On 7/2/2010 10:14 AM, Jonathan Tripathy wrote:
Stacklet Xen images work very well. Right out of
the box. He even gives you a config file! I don't know the guy, but his
work is very good!
It will save your hair.
Also, you don't need to stay subscribed. It's GPL
GNU/Linux. Just stay subscribed for the first month...
I am just about to pull my hair out trying to
get an ubuntu 10.04 pv
domu installed on my centos 5.5 dom0 with xen 4.0. So I am debating on
sparing my hair and just spend a few dollars for a month subscription to
stacklet and download an already done image. Has anyone had any
experiences with this image on a similar setup to mine? Just want to
make sure it will work correctly before I spend any money.
And just before you ask, I do have the ubuntu 10.04 domu installed but
when I boot the only way I can boot it is with the kernel, initrd, and
extra options. Then I have no networking other than localhost. I have
spent almost 2 weeks straight on getting this working so I am about at
the breaking point.
Donny B.
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