Re: [Xen-API] XCP 1.6 unattended PXE install, answers file

[Joseph Hom <jhom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

2. Not sure if this is still the case for 1.6, but prior to XS 6.0.2, in the 
scripting section, we blew away /etc/firstboot.d/interfaces files and recreated 
them. From my understanding, this is what xapi uses on first boot after 
installation to populate its state.db. The interfaces there are all listed 
based on mac.

-----Original Message-----
From: xen-api-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xen-api-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Alexandre Kouznetsov
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2012 6:22 PM
To: xen-api@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Xen-API] XCP 1.6 unattended PXE install, answers file

Hello.

I'm setting up the environment for unattended install of XCP 1.6 via PXE. It is 
supposed to be used to deploy XCP 1.6 on a number of remote boxes. Generally, 
it works in a wonderful way, but i have some doubts about the answers file.

I'm using this reference:
http://docs.vmd.citrix.com/XenServer/6.0.0/1.0/en_gb/installation.html#pxe_boot_install
 


1. <root-password>mypassword</root-password>
XML answers file is plain, published on a (even private) web server. 
Putting a plain root password there seems not to be that good idea. Is it 
possible to specify the password's hash, instead of plain?

2. <admin-interface name="eth0" />
Sometimes the interfaces are detected in different order. Is it possible to 
specify the interface by something else, instead of it's name? MAC address, for 
example?
I could try to play around with <script stage="filesystem-populated">: 
find the desired interface, rename it to something very specific and use that 
name as admin-interface, but i wish to avoid that complexity, if possible.
I have found this question asked elswhere, but not answered.

3. <primary-disk>sda</primary-disk>
Same applies to primary-disk, the order of detection may vary. Is there any 
other way to refer the target disk, beside it's name? Like names from 
/dev/disk/by-id.
Also, it could be nice to use specific IDs in order to prevent a accidental 
disk wipe, since the install is fully automated.

Thank you.

--
Alexandre Kouznetsov

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