[kernel-xen] Converting from bad habits

[Joe Fialkowski]

Here is a sample config of mine. Sets the proper IP and bridge info. I am also using lvm's for the VM disks rather than image files.  

## Cfg type: XEN-PV-LOCAL-STORAGE

bootloader = '/usr/bin/pygrub'
extra      = ''
memory     = 1536
hostname   = 'hostname.domain.com'
cpu_weight = 256
name       = 'vm1039'
vif        = ['ip=123.123.123.132, vifname=vifvm1039.0, mac=00:16:3e:1f:bf:1a, bridge=br0, model=e1000']
vnc        = 0
vcpus      = 4
vncviewer  = 0
serial     = 'pty'
disk       = ['phy:/dev/vg_xm3/vm1039_img,xvda1,w', 'phy:/dev/vg_xm3/vm1039_swap,xvda2,w']

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Joe Fialkowski


On Tuesday, December 4, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Steven Spencer wrote:

> Hello list,
> 
> We have been using xen with CentOS for about 6 years now, always using 
> the libvirt and virt-install routines. After some huge problems with a 
> corrupted XML config file, and posts to this list earlier this year, we 
> decided that on all future xen builds, we would use a straight 
> configuration file for the builds from this point forward.
> 
> Recently, I retired a 5 year old xen server and decided that this would 
> be my test environment for the "new" (i.e., correct) way of creating and 
> installing DomU's. We set up a template in /etc/xen:
> 
> name = "vm_test"
> memory = 1024
> vcpus = 2
> disk = [ 'tap:aio:/virtual/vm_test.img,xvda,w' ]
> on_poweroff = 'destroy'
> on_reboot = 'restart'
> on_crash = 'restart'
> vif = [ "mac=00:16:36:35:35:97,bridge=br0,script=vif-bridge" ]
> kernel="/usr/lib/xen/boot/pv-grub-x86_64.gz"
> extra="(hd0)/boot/grub/grub.conf"
> 
> And I created a disk image using dd:
> 
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/virtual/vm_test.img oflag=direct bs=1M count=2048
> 
> When we used the old virt-install routines, we always specified the IP 
> of the machine we were building, used a hard partitioning, rather than 
> Volume Groups and used the vncviewer to access the machine once the 
> first set of prompts was complete. In reading, I see that some of this 
> can be accomplished through a kickstarter file, so what I'm asking is if 
> this is the recommended way to specify the remaining parameters, or if I 
> need a more extensive configuration.
> 
> Your help is appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> -- 
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> Steven G. Spencer, Network Administrator
> KSC Corporate - The Kelly Supply Family of Companies
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