Re: [Xen-users] XCP: buitin templates (how they works?)

[Jonathan Ludlam <jonathan.ludlam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Take a look at 'eliloader' (/usr/bin/eliloader) - if you look at the 
PV-bootloader on the templates, you'll see it's set to that.
Jon

George Shuklin wrote:
> Good day.
>
> I'm pretty curious, how they work with netinst (debian, suse, ubuntu,
> centos)...
>
> As I understand, at first start they downloads xen-aware kernel and
> netinst initrd from repository (with one user must point with
> other-config:install-repository)...
>
> But how they do it? I means, this some kind of script, some kind of
> variables...
>
> Really, I'd like to do few more templates (f.e. new ubuntu 10.10), but I
> don't know where to start.
>
> Let's starts from beginning...
>
> Where those templates resides? Especially they exists even no any SR are
> created..
>
> They contains following in other-config:
>
> default_template: true; linux_template: true; install-methods:
> cdrom,http,ftp; install-arch: i386; debian-release: lenny; disks:
> <provision><disk device="0" size="8589934592" sr="" bootable="true"
> type="system"/></provision>; install-distro: debianlike
>
> But this is definitive not enough for pinpoint name of kernel/initrd to
> download...
>
> I tried to export template, unpack it (ova.xml), look inside and yet
> found no lines like
> dists/stable/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/xen/...
>
> So: where I shall start to dig in? Thanks.
>
> ---
> wBR, George.
>
>
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