On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 7:34 AM, J <dreadpiratejeff@gmail.com> wrote:
> In the past, as I mentioned yesterday in a different post, I had a
> fully scripted setup that allowed me to ssh onto a Xen Dom0 and create
> DomUs on the fly without needing to use any sort of GUI control
> software.
>
> However, I''m now tasked with using XenServer, which functions a
bit
> differently. It''s more like VMWare ESX. Citrix is telling me
that I
> have to use XenCenter to control and create DomUs, however, that''s
not
> necessarily a viable solution. I need to be able to at least start
> and stop DomUs from the XenServer''s shell. The xm-* tools
don''t exist
> on XenServer, so are there analogues to these tools for XenServer?
>
> Any other suggestions for doing this (we use scripts to log into a
> host machine and start/stop VMs and have done this for a long time on
> VMWare, and I did it forever on Xen on RHEL, now I just need to do it
> for XenServer.
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> Jeff
>
I''m currently writing scripts and howtos to do just that. I''m
moving to XCP
in a classroom environment and need to take a roster full of students and
create VMs for each and hand out access to each one from a script. I was
about 60% done last week when I had to change my focus to another project.
If you''d like to have my current skeleton script that allows you to
create
VMs on a remote XCP/XenServer host then let me know. I stopped working on it
right when I got to the console section. I was going to have the script
shutdown VNC and connect to the console. Keep in mind my script installs VMs
remotely from the commandline and doesn''t clone them. My next script
will
clone from an existing VM but I haven''t started on it yet.
Grant McWilliams
http://grantmcwilliams.com/tech/virtualization/xen-howtos
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