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I finally got the setup working with XM, yes i know, it's deprecated and doesn't work with the stacks (cloud and open) but at least i get to familiarise myself with xen and associated concepts.

In the
          end, i had to use a bringing on a wired connection as bridging
          wlan got me into a catch 22 situation where I have to know the
          mac address of the VM I want to bridge but I need the network
          connection to setup the bridge for making sure the NAT is
          properly setup. I went down this route because brctl didn't
          work for wlan and ebtables looked promising. If anyone has
          successfuly done this, pls share.

For now
          i'll try things out and upgrade to the xcp/xapi toolstack at
          some point in the future.

regards

D

                From: Ian
                Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>

                To: Dayo
                Egbetola <dxcp@xxxxxxxxx> 

                Cc:
                "Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx"
                <Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 

                Sent:
                Monday, 29 April 2013, 14:32

                Subject:
                Re: [Xen-users] XE VM install

              On Sun, 2013-04-28 at 13:05 +0100, Dayo Egbetola wrote:

              > Hi -

              > 

              > 

              > I'm trying to use the instructions here

              > http://xen.pablolibo.com/doku.php
              to create a new VM but it's not

              > clear where the .cfg file should go and what to do
              next. I was

              > thinking xe needs to install the vm from the
              /mnt/so_xen mount but i'm

              > not sure. Are the steps on the site reasonable?

              They appear (on the surface) to be reasonable for use with
              the xl

              tooltack (or the xm interface to the legacy xend
              toolstack) however you

              mention "xe" which is the xapi toolstack client which is
              used by e.g.

              XCP.

              xe does not use the same model for managing domains as xl
              and in

              particular does not use configuration files in the same
              way.

              http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Choice_of_Toolstacks
              describes the toolstacks

              and links to additional information about each of them.

              If you want to use xapi+xe then the (poorly named)
              xen-api@ mailing list

              is where that stuff tends to get discussed. I'm sure
              someone there can

              point you to a suitable howto or perhaps now the
              distinction between

              xl/xe is (hopefully!) clear to you your search engine
              results will be

              more fruitful...

              >Â Is there a way to install a vm from USB instead? 

              With xe, I'm afraid I've no idea.

              Ian.