[Fedora-infrastructure-list] Xen Server and Network Tracking

[Mike McGrath]

On 9/27/06, Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us> wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 September 2006 13:40, Warren Togami wrote:
> > Xen Server and Network Tracking
> > ===============================
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/InfrastructurePrivate/PhoenixServers/XenServe
> >rs Please track Xen guests and network assignments on this page.
> >
> > Template Installed
> > ==================
> > I have a template xen guest installed with yesterday's rawhide on
> > /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-template of xen1.  The template has its
> > networking disabled.  If you copy the template to create another guest,
> > get an IP address assigned, then add it to
> > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 before enabling it.
> >
> > Although I am not sure how useful it is to use this template, given that
> > you can use anaconda to install a new xen guest within minutes.
> >
> > Any ideas of the best way to make an image file of this LVM volume so
> > that we can easily copy it to the xen2 server?
> I don't think we really need a template.  What i think would be better is a
> script  that we pass  a few paramaters to and creates a lvm volume and gets
> the install started.
>
> I guess we could  pass to the script the guest name, the size of the logical
> volume and the distro to install we could  keep in in hardcoded things like
> ram (512mb  probably sane  can be changed later)  and the paths to the
> distros to install.
>
> and  have an optional kickstart config path
>

Yeah I'd have to agree with this in an LVM environment.  I'd always
used templates but I also typically use xen with actual files on the
filesystem.  On second thought it may not work as well with a LVM
setup :(

        -Mike