Re: [Xen-users] Request for review: Ubuntu Community Xen Docs

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2012-06-29 at 11:58 +0100, George Dunlap wrote:
> I've just posted a new set of docs for Xen at the Ubuntu community wiki:
> 
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Xen
> 
> This is basically a complete re-write, written by Todd Deshane; I've
> gone through and "beta-tested" most of it as well, making updates and
> corrections as I go along.
> 
> The plan is for this web page to be included in the Ubuntu 12.04
> Server Guide.  So I'd appreciate it if users could go through and give
> feedback, particularly on things that are confusing or missing.

Looks good, few random thoughts as I read it:

You might want to link to
http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/HostConfiguration/Networking from the "Network
Configuration" section, it gives a few more details and examples of
other configurations etc.

"Creating vms" could link to
http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Category:Guest_Install for info on installing a
variety of guests on Ubuntu.

>From the context I think "sudo pvs" should be "sudo vgs" (you want to
get a list of volume groups, not the underlying physical volumes)

Is "sudo ln -s /usr/lib/xen-4.1/bin/pygrub /usr/bin/pygrub" really
needed? If so then that's strictly speaking a bug in Ubuntu. I'm pretty
sure that was fixed in Debian, so it might just be a case of synching
the relevant patch. Let me know if you want me to dig out what the
change was.

http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Debian_Guest_Installation_Using_Debian_Installer 
mostly applies to Ubuntu too, although perhaps linking it would a bit confusing 
if there were any differences.

You might want to reference xmdomain.cfg(5) and/or
http://xenbits.xen.org/docs/unstable/man/xmdomain.cfg.5.html when giving
example configurations?

At:
        sudo reboot
        sudo /etc/init.d/xend stop
I think you'd be better recommending the relevant "update-rc.d xend
disable" rune, followed by a reboot.

mirror.clarkson.edu might not appreciate having a bunch of ubuntu newbie
Xen users hammering their system... Reference some Fedora mirror list
instead?

I might steel the libvirt bit for a Debian page ;-)

Ian.


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