[Fedora-xen] easy way to configure domU

[Rob Dyke]

I had previously... and now I look again (new shiny website)

"Whether you run a large datacenter, a campus lab, or just have a 
handfull of machines on a home network, cobbler can help you perform 
installations and updates faster."

I have 10 virtual machines over two physical machines.... no shared 
storage (yet), nothing clustered, all manually created and managed. I 
think that I can do everything I need to with virt-manager, kickstart...

I've been reading around the website - cobbler and koan will clearly 
meet Asrai's needs

rob

Andrew Cathrow wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 14:02 +0100, Rob Dyke wrote:
>> Asrai,
>>
>> I build from my own mirror of fedora/rhel installation source using 
>> kickstart files... I can build a new domU in about 15 minutes with a 
>> tight package selection based on the server task.
>>
>> You could also look at http://xen-tools.org/index.html
>>     
>
> Have you looking into Cobbler for remote provisioning?
>
> http://cobbler.et.redhat.com <http://cobbler.et.redhat.com/>
>
>> Rob
>>
>> Asrai khn wrote:
>> > Hi I am wondering is there an easy way to configure domU (vm) quickly, 
>> > atm we are using eg LV (Logical Volumes) to storge root, var and swap 
>> > for VM and then using 
>> >
>> > disk = [ 'phy:vg/myvmdisk1,sda1,w', ... ,...  ] to launch it.
>> >
>> > We takes the tar gunzip of file system of root, var of currently 
>> > running vm and when need arrives we just have to created  LVs and 
>> > untar the achieves and launch the new vm with very little changes.
>> >
>> > Only one problem in this approach is that we get little outdated vm 
>> > which need to update using 'yum'. So is there a way to start new vm 
>> > fast and using currently updated running vm file system?
>> >
>> > Thanks. Askar.
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