Re: [Fedora-xen] provisioning virtual machines
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 02:45:02PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 12:41:06PM +0200, Arindam Choudhury wrote: Hi, I am trying to provision virtual machines to create a virtual machine cluster. If I try to transfer a pre-build virtual machine, its too time consuming and hard on network. So the idea of using bootstrap or kickstart seems better. Can any body point a good tutorial how to do this? Actually I have a master image and I have to copy it on all the nodes and create virtual machines. Is there any other way to do it? A bit old but: http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/Fedora13Xen4Tutorial The stuff about installing VMs still applies to current Fedora versions. Oh, and of course you can pass a kickstart script for the domU installer so the installation is automatic. -- Pasi -- xen mailing list xen@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen
Re: [Fedora-xen] provisioning virtual machines
Thanks for your kind reply. What will be the packages I should install to create a minimal fedora system which i will be able to run sun jdk. I never used kick-start so a bit confused. On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen pa...@iki.fi wrote: On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 02:45:02PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 12:41:06PM +0200, Arindam Choudhury wrote: Hi, I am trying to provision virtual machines to create a virtual machine cluster. If I try to transfer a pre-build virtual machine, its too time consuming and hard on network. So the idea of using bootstrap or kickstart seems better. Can any body point a good tutorial how to do this? Actually I have a master image and I have to copy it on all the nodes and create virtual machines. Is there any other way to do it? A bit old but: http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/Fedora13Xen4Tutorial The stuff about installing VMs still applies to current Fedora versions. Oh, and of course you can pass a kickstart script for the domU installer so the installation is automatic. -- Pasi -- xen mailing list xen@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen
Re: [Fedora-xen] provisioning virtual machines
Arindam Choudhury wrote: Hi, I am trying to provision virtual machines to create a virtual machine cluster. If I try to transfer a pre-build virtual machine, its too time consuming and hard on network. So the idea of using bootstrap or kickstart seems better. Can any body point a good tutorial how to do this? Actually I have a master image and I have to copy it on all the nodes and create virtual machines. Is there any other way to do it? Not having done such a thing with xen, I can only say that you can do it with kvm, starting with a base image and making multiple copy on write (COW) machines which pretty much create instantly and take only as much disk space as the changed data. I would hope the xen tools would support a similar approach, but I can't tell you how to do it. Roll out of a name machine is five minutes or so, start the new VM with a fresh MAC address so your DHCP server gives it a unique IP, set the name and services and go. I present this since you asked, not as a recommendation to do it the way I do... Regards, Arindam -- xen mailing list xen@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We are not out of the woods yet, but we know the direction and have taken the first step. The steps are many, but finite in number, and if we persevere we will reach our destination. -me, 2010 -- xen mailing list xen@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen
