Hi Donny,
You're miles ahead of me! I'm only really just starting out with
Xen. All my past experience is with VMWare esxi, however since I wish to host
VMs for customers, VMWare doesn't allow this without paying money...
My servers which will go live soon will be running CentOS 5.5 with
Gitco's 3.4.2 Xen. All the DomU images will be from stacklet. As for storage, I
think I'm eventually going to get a central storage server, and export a few LVs
via "ATA over Ethernet", as I've heard it can be faster than iSCSI
Cheers
Jonny
Thanks. I am usually the kind of guy that can just figure stuff out. And I
have been running Xen at home for well over a year (more like two IIRC) but I
have never ventured out past "what works" and distro supported versions till
recently. My production setup at home is still running on an ubuntu 8.04 dom0
with Xen version 3.2.1-rc1-pre. All my domu's at home are pretty much ubuntu
with the only exception being my PBX that runs on Centos. I got that as an image
from someone else and customized it for my needs. So this foray into the bowels
of Xen has been interesting for me. Next thing to test is live migration. I now
have setup a secondary Xen server at home running Centos 5.5 with Xen 3.4.2 from
the gitco repo so I can do some testing with this. All in all I like xen and
what it can do. Just wish it was a hair easier to figure things
out!
Thanks again.
Donny B.
On 7/2/2010 11:07 AM, Jonathan
Tripathy wrote:
Yes. That is exactly what I do. Make your inital LV size 10GB.
Then dd the img over to the LV. Then you can shrink/expand LV and
filesystem.
Don't worry about what's happened recently. Xen was and still is
a big learning curve for me too :)
I know it is an .img file but I should be able to simply "dd" that to a
lv and change the config accordingly if I want to use a physical lv rather
than image file correct? I know it may seem obvious but I think after the
fight I have had trying to setup the regular way I make no assumptions. Thanks
in advance.
On 7/2/2010 10:14 AM, Jonathan Tripathy wrote:
Stacklet Xen images work very well. Right out of the box. He
even gives you a config file! I don't know the guy, but his work is very
good!
It will save your hair.
Also, you don't need to stay subscribed. It's GPL GNU/Linux.
Just stay subscribed for the first month...
I am just about to pull my hair out trying to get an ubuntu
10.04 pv
domu installed on my centos 5.5 dom0 with xen 4.0. So I am
debating on
sparing my hair and just spend a few dollars for a month
subscription to
stacklet and download an already done image. Has anyone
had any
experiences with this image on a similar setup to mine? Just want
to
make sure it will work correctly before I spend any money.
And
just before you ask, I do have the ubuntu 10.04 domu installed but
when I
boot the only way I can boot it is with the kernel, initrd, and
extra
options. Then I have no networking other than localhost. I have
spent
almost 2 weeks straight on getting this working so I am about at
the
breaking point.
Donny
B.
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