On 9/27/06, Dennis Gilmore dennis@ausil.us wrote:

On Wednesday 27 September 2006 13:40, Warren Togami wrote:

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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