Comments on: Debian Sarge(ish) x86-64 Xen Installation

By: michael

michael — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 13:57:59 +0000

On a Xeon server, here are the apt conf bits I used - everything else is pretty much the same

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michael@mshuler-xen:~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
# stable
deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/d... stable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://mirrors.kernel.org/d... stable main contrib non-free

# testing
deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/d... testing main contrib non-free
deb-src http://mirrors.kernel.org/d... testing main contrib non-free

# unstable
deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/d... unstable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://mirrors.kernel.org/d... unstable main contrib non-free

# security updates
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free

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michael@mshuler-xen:~$ cat /etc/apt/preferences
Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian,a=stable
Pin-Priority: 900

Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian,a=testing
Pin-Priority: 400

Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian,a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 300

Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian
Pin-Priority: -1

By: michael

michael — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 12:11:57 +0000

conf edits from: http://www.debian-administr...

/etc/init.d/xend:

start)
echo -n "Starting $DESC: "
# addition from: http://www.debian-administr...
modprobe loop max_loop=64
cd /dev && /dev/MAKEDEV loop
# end addition
[ -d "$XENSTORED_RUN_DIR" ] || mkdir -p "$XENSTORED_RUN_DIR"
xend start
await_daemons_up
echo "$NAME."
;;

/etc/xen-tools/xen-tools.conf:

#
# from: http://www.debian-administr...
#
use-ide = 1

By: michael

michael — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 12:06:51 +0000

rpm-based distro domU creation example:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/xen/domains/mshuler2/disk.img bs=1024k count=2000
dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/xen/domains/mshuler2/swap.img bs=1024k count=128
mkfs.ext3 /home/xen/domains/mshuler2/disk.img
mkswap /home/xen/domains/mshuler2/swap.img
cd /home/xen
rpmstrap --download-only --arch x86_64 centos4 centos4_rpms
(and download the missing ones from the rpm install errors....)
mount -o loop /home/xen/domains/mshuler2/disk.img /mnt/loop/
rpm -ivh --root /mnt/loop centos4_rpms/*.rpm --ignorearch
xm create mshuler2.cfg -c

or from devnet kickstart nfs mount:

mount -t nfs 10.6.203.132:/exports /mnt/nfs/
rpm -ivh --root /mnt/loop/ /mnt/nfs/redhat/rhes-4/RedHat/RPMS/*.rpm --nodeps --ignorearch