Thank you for your reply. Your tutorials are very helpful and much
appreciated. At the moment I do not have OpenXenCenter installed and will
try to get it installed as it appears that it makes life easier. At the
moment my invocation of wget runs and connects with the download site but
keeps getting dropped.
Meanwhile, I don''t have the Windows Server 2003 installed on the its
VM
template yet but I''m getting closer (I think). It seems that when I
start
the VM with the CD in the drive, I can see the drive spin up etc but then
nothing happens beyond that. I was expecting to see the installer load or
some such. I''ve looked at your other post regarding your HVM settings.
Here''s what my configuration looks like at the moment.
[root@pmx004 ~]# xe vm-param-list uuid=1d1c7873-0d08-e519-3545-26db09bce9ed
uuid ( RO) : 1d1c7873-0d08-e519-3545-26db09bce9ed
name-label ( RW): WSServer2003_01
name-description ( RW): Installed via xe CLI
user-version ( RW): 1
is-a-template ( RW): false
is-a-snapshot ( RO): false
snapshot_of ( RO): <not in database>
snapshots ( RO):
snapshot_time ( RO): 19700101T00:00:00Z
snapshot-info ( RO):
parent ( RO): eb767dcc-f1d2-11ba-0b45-e64fc716216f
children ( RO):
is-control-domain ( RO): false
power-state ( RO): halted
memory-actual ( RO): 536784896
memory-target ( RO): 0
memory-overhead ( RO): 7340032
memory-static-max ( RW): 536870912
memory-dynamic-max ( RW): 536870912
memory-dynamic-min ( RW): 536870912
memory-static-min ( RW): 268435456
suspend-VDI-uuid ( RO): <not in database>
VCPUs-params (MRW):
VCPUs-max ( RW): 1
VCPUs-at-startup ( RW): 1
actions-after-shutdown ( RW): Destroy
actions-after-reboot ( RW): Restart
actions-after-crash ( RW): Restart
console-uuids (SRO):
platform (MRW): timeoffset: 0; nx: false; acpi: true;
apic: true; pae: true; viridian: true
allowed-operations (SRO): changing_dynamic_range;
changing_static_range; make_into_template; destroy; export; start_on; start;
create_template; clone; copy; snapshot
current-operations (SRO):
blocked-operations (MRW):
allowed-VBD-devices (SRO): 1; 2
allowed-VIF-devices (SRO): 0; 1; 2; 3
possible-hosts ( RO): 62c35377-09c5-4b0f-a43a-0cff42dd1add
HVM-boot-policy ( RW): BIOS order
HVM-boot-params (MRW): order: dc
HVM-shadow-multiplier ( RW): 1.000
PV-kernel ( RW):
PV-ramdisk ( RW):
PV-args ( RW):
PV-legacy-args ( RW):
PV-bootloader ( RW):
PV-bootloader-args ( RW):
last-boot-CPU-flags ( RO):
last-boot-record ( RO): ''(''struct''
(''uuid''
''1d1c7873-0d08-e519-3545-26db09bce9ed'')
(''allowed_operations'' (''array''))
(''current_operations'' (''struct''
(''OpaqueRef:8e76b8c8-4f6e-db16-a675-6747386a2b38''
''start''))) (''power_state''
''Halted'') (''name_label''
''WSServer2003_01'') (''name_description''
''Installed
via xe CLI'') (''user_version'' ''1'')
(''is_a_template'' (''boolean''
''0''))
(''suspend_VDI'' ''OpaqueRef:NULL'')
(''resident_on'' ''OpaqueRef:NULL'')
(''affinity'' ''OpaqueRef:NULL'')
(''memory_overhead'' ''7340032'')
(''memory_target''
''536870912'') (''memory_static_max''
''536870912'') (''memory_dynamic_max''
''536870912'') (''memory_dynamic_min''
''536870912'') (''memory_static_min''
''268435456'') (''VCPUs_params''
(''struct'')) (''VCPUs_max''
''1'')
(''VCPUs_at_startup'' ''1'')
(''actions_after_shutdown'' ''destroy'')
(''actions_after_reboot'' ''restart'')
(''actions_after_crash'' ''restart'')
(''consoles'' (''array''))
(''VIFs'' (''array'')) (''VBDs''
(''array''
''OpaqueRef:71cd561b-d7df-6aea-66e0-f53abd93e0fe''
''OpaqueRef:c3f54148-f2d5-5add-5d75-f609d79e60ff''))
(''crash_dumps'' (''array''))
(''VTPMs'' (''array''))
(''PV_bootloader'' '''')
(''PV_kernel'' '''')
(''PV_ramdisk'' '''')
(''PV_args'' '''')
(''PV_bootloader_args'' '''')
(''PV_legacy_args'' '''')
(''HVM_boot_policy'' ''BIOS order'')
(''HVM_boot_params'' (''struct''
(''order''
''dc''))) (''HVM_shadow_multiplier''
(''double'' ''1''))
(''platform'' (''struct''
(''timeoffset'' ''0'') (''nx''
''false'') (''acpi'' ''true'')
(''apic'' ''true'') (''pae''
''true'') (''viridian''
''true''))) (''PCI_bus'' '''')
(''other_config'' (''struct''
(''last_shutdown_time'' ''20100623T18:39:55Z'')
(''last_shutdown_action''
''Destroy'') (''last_shutdown_initiator''
''external'') (''last_shutdown_reason''
''halted'') (''install-repository''
''cdrom'') (''mac_seed''
''ae23e3b1-b6e3-ffae-7fb7-9eaaab007ef8'')
(''install-methods'' ''cdrom'')))
(''domid'' ''-1'') (''domarch''
''hvm'') (''last_boot_CPU_flags''
(''struct''))
(''is_control_domain'' (''boolean''
''0'')) (''metrics''
''OpaqueRef:7a428265-5335-1b7b-5c0f-1b13818f11fe'')
(''guest_metrics''
''OpaqueRef:NULL'') (''last_booted_record''
'''') (''recommendations''
''<restrictions><restriction
field=\"memory-static-max\" max=\"34359738368\"
/><restriction field=\"vcpus-max\" max=\"8\"
/><restriction
property=\"number-of-vbds\" max=\"7\" /><restriction
property=\"number-of-vifs\" max=\"7\"
/></restrictions>'') (''xenstore_data''
(''struct'')) (''ha_always_run''
(''boolean'' ''0''))
(''ha_restart_priority'' '''')
(''is_a_snapshot'' (''boolean''
''0'')) (''snapshot_of''
''OpaqueRef:NULL'')
(''snapshots'' (''array''))
(''snapshot_time'' (''dateTime.iso8601''
''19700101T00:00:00Z''))
(''transportable_snapshot_id'' '''')
(''blobs'' (''struct''))
(''tags'' (''array''))
(''blocked_operations'' (''struct''))
(''snapshot_info''
(''struct'')) (''snapshot_metadata''
'''') (''parent''
''OpaqueRef:2d342a4b-50a7-a114-c499-31e700309db6'')
(''children'' (''array''))
(''bios_strings'' (''struct'')))''
resident-on ( RO): <not in database>
affinity ( RW): <not in database>
other-config (MRW): last_shutdown_time:
20100623T18:41:07Z; last_shutdown_action: Destroy; last_shutdown_initiator:
external; last_shutdown_reason: halted; install-repository: cdrom; mac_seed:
ae23e3b1-b6e3-ffae-7fb7-9eaaab007ef8; install-methods: cdrom
dom-id ( RO): -1
recommendations ( RO): <restrictions><restriction
field="memory-static-max" max="34359738368"
/><restriction field="vcpus-max"
max="8" /><restriction property="number-of-vbds"
max="7" /><restriction
property="number-of-vifs" max="7" /></restrictions>
xenstore-data (MRW):
ha-always-run ( RW): false
ha-restart-priority ( RW):
blobs ( RO):
start-time ( RO): 20100623T18:40:45Z
install-time ( RO): 20100623T15:55:03Z
VCPUs-number ( RO): 1
VCPUs-utilisation (MRO):
os-version (MRO): <not in database>
PV-drivers-version (MRO): <not in database>
PV-drivers-up-to-date ( RO): <not in database>
memory (MRO): <not in database>
disks (MRO): <not in database>
networks (MRO): <not in database>
other (MRO): <not in database>
live ( RO): <not in database>
guest-metrics-last-updated ( RO): <not in database>
cooperative ( RO): true
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 5:04 AM, Stephen Spector
<stephen.spector@citrix.com> wrote:
> I installed Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) following the steps in the XCP
> Installation Guide. Next I want to install two VMs (SLES 10 and Windows
> Server 2003) to use as a testing platform for a product under development.
>
> The XCP Virtual Machine Installation Guide states that "The Windows VM
can
> be installed either from an install CD in a physical CD-ROM on the Xen
Cloud
> Platform host, or from an ISO image of your Windows media." I would
like
> to install from the install CD. My question though is how? I
don''t see a
> series of basic steps in the guide. The guide earlier states that VMs are
> installed from templates. So I installed the template for Windows Server
> 2003 SP2 using the XE tool:
>
> xe vm-install new-name-label=<name>
> template-uuid=<uuid_of_desired_template>
>
> If I issue xe vm-list I can see the template installed. It lists:
>
> uuid ( RO) : 1bd800c9-4ccf-a786-6436-a34a3eec108c
> name-label ( RW): Windows Server 2003
> power-state: ( RO): running
>
> That seems well and good. But now I''m really stuck as to what the
next step
> is to install the Windows Server 2003 from CD. I''ve looked
through all the
> xe VM commands in the Reference guide for clues which I''m sure are
there and
> obvious to the more experienced of you out there. I''m new to this
domain and
> have been asked to explore it by my team as a potential platform for our
> testing purposes.
>
>
>
> Take a look at
>
http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2010/03/19/xcp-tutorial-creation-of-a-windows-7-guest/which
has the instructions I used to install Win7 from a CD on XCP. Thanks.
>
>
>
>
>
> *Stephen Spector*
>
>
>
> Xen.org Community Manager
>
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>
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>
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>
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