Hi, does anybody know a domU images repository? I had found one by mistake some days ago; it contained debian sarge and fedora core 4 images. However, i cannot find it now. Thanks. ___________________________________________________________ To help you stay safe and secure online, we''ve developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. http://uk.security.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 04:43:15PM +0000, Konstantinos Pachopoulos wrote:> does anybody know a domU images repository? I had > found one by mistake some days ago; it contained > debian sarge and fedora core 4 images. However, i > cannot find it now.I don''t understand the attraction. domU images are trivial to make for these distributions with debootstrap and rpmstrap respectively. _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
> Hi, > does anybody know a domU images repository? I had > found one by mistake some days ago; it contained > debian sarge and fedora core 4 images. However, i > cannot find it now. > Thanks. >Sorry. I have to add, that i refer to amd64 images. If i386 images can work with an i386 domU, an i386 xen-images repository would be useful too. ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Photos NEW, now offering a quality print service from just 8p a photo http://uk.photos.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Andy Smith schrieb:>On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 04:43:15PM +0000, Konstantinos Pachopoulos wrote: > > >>does anybody know a domU images repository? I had >>found one by mistake some days ago; it contained >>debian sarge and fedora core 4 images. However, i >>cannot find it now. >> >> > >I don''t understand the attraction. domU images are trivial to make >for these distributions with debootstrap and rpmstrap respectively. > >But not cross-wise. There is no rpmstrap on Debian, e.g. Dirk _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 06:15:46PM +0100, Dirk H. Schulz wrote:> Andy Smith schrieb: > >I don''t understand the attraction. domU images are trivial to make > >for these distributions with debootstrap and rpmstrap respectively. > > > But not cross-wise. There is no rpmstrap on Debian, e.g.So you would rather end up downloading off-the-shelf images made by other people which you have no control over and have to customise every time to suit, instead of installing one package from source that does it the way you want every time? http://rpmstrap.pimpscript.net/releases/ _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Andy Smith schrieb:>On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 06:15:46PM +0100, Dirk H. Schulz wrote: > > >>Andy Smith schrieb: >> >> >>>I don''t understand the attraction. domU images are trivial to make >>>for these distributions with debootstrap and rpmstrap respectively. >>> >>> >>> >>But not cross-wise. There is no rpmstrap on Debian, e.g. >> >> > >So you would rather end up downloading off-the-shelf images made by >other people which you have no control over and have to customise >every time to suit, instead of installing one package from source >that does it the way you want every time? > >http://rpmstrap.pimpscript.net/releases/ > >Oh, ahem, yes. There is nothing to add to. You are right, of course. Thanks for the link! Dirk _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 05:18:27PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:> So you would rather end up downloading off-the-shelf images made by > other people which you have no control over and have to customise > every time to suit, instead of installing one package from source > that does it the way you want every time? > > http://rpmstrap.pimpscript.net/releases/Well you''d customize it once, then copy the image locally I''d assume? Anyway rpmstrap looks great. I saw it listed on freshmeat this morning, although when testing it I noticed it doesn''t support/handle SuSE. So for the moment I cannot use it. Steve -- _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Wednesday 08 February 2006 18:41, Steve Kemp wrote:> On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 05:18:27PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > > So you would rather end up downloading off-the-shelf images made by > > other people which you have no control over and have to customise > > every time to suit, instead of installing one package from source > > that does it the way you want every time? > > > > http://rpmstrap.pimpscript.net/releases/ > > Well you''d customize it once, then copy the image locally I''d > assume? > > Anyway rpmstrap looks great. I saw it listed on freshmeat this > morning, although when testing it I noticed it doesn''t support/handle > SuSE. > > So for the moment I cannot use it.Suse has (had? has been a while since I last installed a SuSE system) an "install into directory" option somewhere in YAST. Which should do exactly the right thing, so no need for rpmstrap there. /Ernst _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Steve Kemp wrote:> Anyway rpmstrap looks great. I saw it listed on freshmeat this > morning, although when testing it I noticed it doesn''t support/handle > SuSE. > > So for the moment I cannot use it.My experience using rpmstrap from inside Debian was problematic. As most of you know, debian uses apt and dpkg for packages, NOT rpm. I''m sure it fills a need, but the less painful way is to spawn systems from like systems. I found it much easier to spawn a centos-3 system using yum --installroot and rpm --root vs. trying rpmstrap with a quirky/unworkable set of packages. The packages dictated by the centos3 suite are (or were anyway) pointed at an old updates of centos-3 (3.4 ?) See http://mark.foster.cc/wiki/index.php/Centos-3_on_Xen for a write-up. The other aspect of vm creation I don''t see discussed much here is the use of templates... they can save alot of time when you need to spawn multiple like systems. The use of templates is something that IMO should be considered as a best practice in production scenarios. One could easily leverage a pre-packaged image by downloading and modifying it into one''s own template. -- Some days it''s just not worth chewing through the restraints... Mark D. Foster, CISSP <mark@foster.cc> http://mark.foster.cc/ _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On 2/8/06, Mark Foster <mark@foster.cc> wrote:> > The other aspect of vm creation I don''t see discussed much here is the > use of templates... they can save alot of time when you need to spawn > multiple like systems. The use of templates is something that IMO should > be considered as a best practice in production scenarios. One could > easily leverage a pre-packaged image by downloading and modifying it > into one''s own template. >Yes thats what i have been trying to do. Take ready images and make my own templates for use. Once a template is ready, for each deployment minor mods can be made and the image can be deployed immediately. P.S. Nice writeup in that wiki, it helped me a lot when i was trying to understand how to setup xen, lvm etc. Thanks. -- regards, Anand Gupta _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Hi Konstantinos, have a look at these links: http://www.xen-get.org/ http://jailtime.org/ They offer pre-build domU images. Regards Ralf> Hi, > does anybody know a domU images repository? I had > found one by mistake some days ago; it contained > debian sarge and fedora core 4 images. However, i > cannot find it now. > Thanks. > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > To help you stay safe and secure online, we''ve developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. http://uk.security.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-users mailing list > Xen-users@lists.xensource.com > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users_______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 18:15 +0100, Dirk H. Schulz wrote:> [...] > But not cross-wise. There is no rpmstrap on Debian, e.g. >Rpmstrap _could_ run on Debian, theoretically. It''s distributed as tar archive. I created Debian Packages some time ago, they are available at http://faiwiki.informatik.uni-koeln.de/download/fai-multi-distribution/debian/experimental/ I think there was a newer release these days, and I''ll update the packages in a while. Also sent patches which include the debian-package stuff in the upstream itself. But they still have some problems - I am trying to use it for the addition of multiple distroibution features to an an automatic installation system (FAI) for Debian. I want to invest some more time into further research to get it going cleanly on Debian, ideas and comments would be helpful. BTW, an Debian, FAI can also be used to install XEN VM''s automatically, some of the FAI developers use it successfully (some 2.x versions). Henning _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Hello All, Coming into this thread late w/o reading it fully... I had pretty good success with rpmstrap after a bit of fiddling around with it, I was using a CentOS-4 dom0, I was also able to build debian boxes by aliening a debootrap .deb into an rpm and installing on CentOS. Was a convenient wat to make debian domU''s w/o running a debian host and required just a few modifications(installing an fstab etc) to get up and runnning. good days, John Fairbairn> Steve Kemp wrote: >> Anyway rpmstrap looks great. I saw it listed on freshmeat this >> morning, although when testing it I noticed it doesn''t support/handle >> SuSE. >> >> So for the moment I cannot use it. > > My experience using rpmstrap from inside Debian was problematic. As most > of you know, debian uses apt and dpkg for packages, NOT rpm. > > I''m sure it fills a need, but the less painful way is to spawn systems > from like systems. I found it much easier to spawn a centos-3 system > using yum --installroot and rpm --root vs. trying rpmstrap with a > quirky/unworkable set of packages. The packages dictated by the centos3 > suite are (or were anyway) pointed at an old updates of centos-3 (3.4 ?) > See http://mark.foster.cc/wiki/index.php/Centos-3_on_Xen for a write-up. > > The other aspect of vm creation I don''t see discussed much here is the > use of templates... they can save alot of time when you need to spawn > multiple like systems. The use of templates is something that IMO should > be considered as a best practice in production scenarios. One could > easily leverage a pre-packaged image by downloading and modifying it > into one''s own template. > > -- > Some days it''s just not worth chewing through the restraints... > Mark D. Foster, CISSP <mark@foster.cc> http://mark.foster.cc/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-users mailing list > Xen-users@lists.xensource.com > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users >_______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Greetings, Let''s suppose that you get hold of this image. A couple of quick questions :-) Where do you place it on your file system and the config file as well. And you would launch it with : Xm -create Cheers Jimmy>>>So you would rather end up downloading off-the-shelf images made byother people which you have no control over and have to customise every time to suit, instead of installing one package from source that does it the way you want every time? http://rpmstrap.pimpscript.net/releases/ _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users