Re: [Xen-users] Boot XCP from USB Stick - Anybody already did it - How might this be done ?

[Alexandre Kouznetsov <alk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello.

El 26/01/13 10:23, Andreas Balg escribió:
> So far I've been able to find some industrial grade USB-Sticks of
> 4Gb/8Gb that are specified to operate at temperatures up to 85°C (inside
> a blade server) and are built using SLC-flash. Those are specified at
> MTBF of 5.000.000 hours of operation without the usual wear of flash
> cells - even at high I/O rates. So this should easily be very good for
> reliable dom0 operation. DomUs are planned to be kept on FC-SAN - But I
> absolutely do not want to boot from there
Could you share the brand/model?
Kingston USB thumbs I have used started to behave weired after some 
months of operation, so I dropped that setup.
> Anybody been able to compile usb-drivers for the installer or a kernel
> with built in drivers for USB or create a bootable image to be copied
> directly to a stick?
Yes, it's not a big deal. I have don it with XCP 1.1 and 1.5, surely the 
setup of 1.6 would be similar.
Check this last year's thread. There I provide the links to the 
reference I used:
http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-users/2012-04/msg00236.html


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Alexandre Kouznetsov


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