The path to take here is to clone the existing Debian 6 template in the bit level that you’re interested in and edit/modify it to satisfy your needs (which I’ve done many of these for other “online install” type
distros aka net-installs).
Here’s an outline:
# xe template-list |grep 'Debian Squeeze 6.0 (64-bit)' -B1
uuid ( RO) : 2122992d-d430-e380-625e-d6049cfae018
name-label ( RW): Debian Squeeze 6.0 (64-bit)
Now that we have our template, here are all the modifications we need to make (do note that your uuid for your template will differ from mine)
# xe vm-clone uuid=2122992d-d430-e380-625e-d6049cfae018 new-name-label="Debian Squeeze 7.0 (64-bit)"
93984a64-6296-85e2-1731-c5986c26a362
So we’ve now got our new template UUID from the vm-clone return, modify it.
# xe template-param-set uuid=93984a64-6296-85e2-1731-c5986c26a362 other-config:debian-release=wheezy
# xe template-param-set uuid=93984a64-6296-85e2-1731-c5986c26a362 other-config:default_template=true
# xe template-param-set uuid=93984a64-6296-85e2-1731-c5986c26a362 other-config:install-methods= http, cdrom,ftp,nfs
# xe vm-param-set uuid=93984a64-6296-85e2-1731-c5986c26a362 other-config-install-repository=http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/
This creates a new default template of Debian 7.0 Wheezy amd64. You can use this for other coded installs. Do note for XCP1.6 that the XS Tools will not detect “wheezy” as a release version, and you’ll have to
install the tools manually via dpkg (meh, minor inconvenience but its OK). Also you can merge all the other-config:* segments into one command, I just showed you them individually for posterity. As always, you can get all the options by executing “xe template-param-get
uuid=<UUID_HERE> param-name=<PARAM_HERE>”
- Brian Menges
Principal Engineer, DevOps
GoGrid | ServePath | ColoServe | UpStream Networks
From: xen-api-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xen-api-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Narcís Escarpanter
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 04:19
To: xen-api@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Xen-API] XCP new VM from wheezy template
Hi,
We are working with xen-api and we want to install a new wheezy system, we don’t want to create from a previously installed system first and then convert it to template. So... Is there a way to install a new VM from a debian 7 (wheezy)
template on a XCP? Like downloading the template from Xen and putting it in some path, create a new one and then set the default template flag, ... ?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Narcís Escarpanter
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