Xen users - May 2007 - [HOWTO] Xen 3.1.0 on Debian etch amd64

Hello,

attached is a little guide (in mediawiki notation) how to cleanly 
install xen 3.1.0 on debian etch amd64.

Suggestions welcome!

Regards,
Bjoern


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Excellent. Short of having actual Debian packages I might try this out.

Just a couple of ''wishlist'' items:

. At some point official 3.1.0 packages will be available for Xen. It
would be nice to have the changeover procedure documented (or just a
script to remove everything). I got bitten when I first tried the Debian
packages because I had some 3.0.1 cruft still lying around.
. One of the nice things that the Debian Xen packages allow is to have
multiple versions installed concurrently (eg 3.0.3, 3.0.2). The tools in
the path are all just scripts which call the version of the tools that
match the hypervisor. It would be nice to extend that here...

James
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> bounces@lists.xensource.com] On Behalf Of Bjoern Metzdorf
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> Subject: [Xen-users] [HOWTO] Xen 3.1.0 on Debian etch amd64
> 
> Hello,
> 
> attached is a little guide (in mediawiki notation) how to cleanly
> install xen 3.1.0 on debian etch amd64.
> 
> Suggestions welcome!
> 
> Regards,
> Bjoern
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Le Thu, May 24, 2007 at 10:05:21PM +1000, James Harper
[james.harper@bendigoit.com.au] a écrit:
> Excellent. Short of having actual Debian packages I might try this out.
> 
> Just a couple of ''wishlist'' items:
> 
> . At some point official 3.1.0 packages will be available for Xen. It
> would be nice to have the changeover procedure documented (or just a
> script to remove everything). I got bitten when I first tried the Debian
> packages because I had some 3.0.1 cruft still lying around.
That''s what the use of checkinstal, mentioned in the howto, is there
for...


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Hello James,
> . At some point official 3.1.0 packages will be available for Xen. It
> would be nice to have the changeover procedure documented (or just a
> script to remove everything). I got bitten when I first tried the Debian
> packages because I had some 3.0.1 cruft still lying around.
Just remove the package with dpkg before installing the new official 
debian package.
> . One of the nice things that the Debian Xen packages allow is to have
> multiple versions installed concurrently (eg 3.0.3, 3.0.2). The tools in
> the path are all just scripts which call the version of the tools that
> match the hypervisor. It would be nice to extend that here...
Didn''t know that before. Just adjust the layout in install/ to put 
everything to install/usr/lib/xen-3.1.0-custom1/ and use debians wrapper 
scripts from the 3.0.3 package:

/usr/lib/xen-common/bin/xen-utils-wrapper
/usr/lib/xen-common/bin/xen-utils-version

Perhaps you need xen-common and other stuff from debian as well, which 
then pulls other dependencies, I don''t know.

Regards,
Bjoern

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