Hello! I''m quite new to Xen, and am wondering what is the best way to handle my XCP based server... Eg. video console for installation and maintenance, shutdown, restart, disk and memory config, etc. I read about openxenmanager, but it seems like an abandoned project, and seems extremely nontrivial to use under OSX. What about XenWebManager? I need to install that on the XCP server somehow, right? But what about console access to the virtual machines? Can this help me with that, over the web? Can someone point me in the right direction? Daniel _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
I''m pretty sure openxenmanger is still quite alive it''s just a case of few ''or actually one I think'' developer so the dev cycle is a bit slow. Not sure how hard it is to get it working on osx though. Kind Regards, Christopher James Petrolino On Sep 10, 2011, at 6:19 PM, József Dániel <daniel.jozsef@gmail.com> wrote:> Hello! > > I''m quite new to Xen, and am wondering what is the best way to handle > my XCP based server... > Eg. video console for installation and maintenance, shutdown, restart, > disk and memory config, etc. > > I read about openxenmanager, but it seems like an abandoned project, > and seems extremely nontrivial to use under OSX. What about > XenWebManager? I need to install that on the XCP server somehow, > right? But what about console access to the virtual machines? Can this > help me with that, over the web? Can someone point me in the right > direction? > > Daniel > > _______________________________________________ > 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
install the xenwebmanager appliance on XCP, upload the .xva file and run xe vm-import filename=xenwebmanager.xva then xe vm-start xenwemanager figure out the ip it got from dhcp then goto the http://ip-from-dhcp/8080 add the server ip for the XCP hosts and login / password and yes you can console to running guests from xenwebmanager 2011/9/10 Chris Petrolino <cpetrolino@gmail.com>:> I''m pretty sure openxenmanger is still quite alive it''s just a case of few ''or actually one I think'' developer so the dev cycle is a bit slow. Not sure how hard it is to get it working on osx though. > > Kind Regards, > > Christopher James Petrolino > > > On Sep 10, 2011, at 6:19 PM, József Dániel <daniel.jozsef@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello! >> >> I''m quite new to Xen, and am wondering what is the best way to handle >> my XCP based server... >> Eg. video console for installation and maintenance, shutdown, restart, >> disk and memory config, etc. >> >> I read about openxenmanager, but it seems like an abandoned project, >> and seems extremely nontrivial to use under OSX. What about >> XenWebManager? I need to install that on the XCP server somehow, >> right? But what about console access to the virtual machines? Can this >> help me with that, over the web? Can someone point me in the right >> direction? >> >> Daniel >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >_______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Grant McWilliams
2011-Sep-11 06:07 UTC
Re: [Xen-users] XCP which management console to use
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Outback Dingo <outbackdingo@gmail.com>wrote:> install the xenwebmanager appliance on XCP, upload the .xva file and > run xe vm-import filename=xenwebmanager.xva > then xe vm-start xenwemanager > > figure out the ip it got from dhcp > > then goto the http://ip-from-dhcp/8080 > > add the server ip for the XCP hosts and login / password > > and yes you can console to running guests from xenwebmanager > > 2011/9/10 Chris Petrolino <cpetrolino@gmail.com>: > > I''m pretty sure openxenmanger is still quite alive it''s just a case of > few ''or actually one I think'' developer so the dev cycle is a bit slow. Not > sure how hard it is to get it working on osx though. > > > > Kind Regards, > > > > Christopher James Petrolino > > > > >openxenmanager was abandoned by the original author because he couldn''t get any support from Citrix and has since stopped using XCP. Another person took over but hasn''t really done anything yet from what I understand. OpenXenManager does work and is nice to look at but is buggy as heck. You''ll find yourself restarting it a lot. XenWebManager is the web version of the same code and most of the links to it have disappeared although the xva noted above is at http://sourceforge.net/projects/xenwebmanager/files/appliances/. The last update seems to be a year old. I went through the same process looking for a graphical management interface and settled on xvp appliance which has been rock solid so far. It doesn''t have all of the abilities of Openxenmanager but what it does it does reliably. That includes start/stop/restart/console which is what I needed. Grant McWilliams _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Morten Christensen
2011-Sep-11 08:49 UTC
Re: [Xen-users] XCP which management console to use
Den 11-09-2011 00:19, József Dániel skrev:> Hello! > > I''m quite new to Xen, and am wondering what is the best way to handle > my XCP based server... > Eg. video console for installation and maintenance, shutdown, restart, > disk and memory config, etc.Start trying with XenCenter - the management-tool for XenServer, that works on XCP 1.0. It is a windowsprogram, so you might get problems on OSX, but it is working better than its free alternatives or clones.> > I read about openxenmanager, but it seems like an abandoned project, > and seems extremely nontrivial to use under OSX. What about > XenWebManager? I need to install that on the XCP server somehow, > right? But what about console access to the virtual machines? Can this > help me with that, over the web? Can someone point me in the right > direction?Some features from OpenXenManager has bugs in the XenWebManager-implementation, as I remember it from running XCP 0.5, where XenCenter was block''ed from use. -- Morten Christensen _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users