Xen users - Oct 2011 - Wanted: XCP 1.1 tutorial for creating VMs from scratch using xe CLI

Hello,

It is nearly not possible to use XCP without a tutorial, in particular 
if ones has to use the xe CLI.
Reading of reference.pdf and guests.pdf of XenServer and different wiki 
pages didn''t help enough.

Even *XCP seems to be a very good software* it will be useless without 
good documentation because of it''s complexity.

Thank you in advance for any hints.

Regards, Mark

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ms@it-infrastrukturen.org



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Hey Mark,

I have to concur there, the hardest part for me starting with XCP was simply
understanding what it is (esp. it''s precise relationship to
Xen/XenServer),
what it does, and then how to set it up.

I know Lars and the guys are actively aware of this and working on the
documentation/wiki.

I recently signed up on the wiki and started typing up a few pages to
hopefully help, in particular please check out this intro page and see if it
answers some of your questions.I hope everyone finds it is correct and
helpful:
http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/XCP_Introduction.. this is a step, but
a start-to-finish tutorial is lacking and would be great to have.

I also added a section for Getting Started under the overview, and
http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/XCP_HowTo with a starting small selection of XCP
specific how-tos, hopefully others might want to continue to refine and
expand these areas?

Cheers,
Andrew

Andrew Eross
CTO
Locatrix Communications
eross@locatrix.com



On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Mark Schneider
<ms@it-infrastrukturen.org>wrote:
> Hello,
>
> It is nearly not possible to use XCP without a tutorial, in particular if
> ones has to use the xe CLI.
> Reading of reference.pdf and guests.pdf of XenServer and different wiki
> pages didn''t help enough.
>
> Even *XCP seems to be a very good software* it will be useless without good
> documentation because of it''s complexity.
>
> Thank you in advance for any hints.
>
> Regards, Mark
>
> --
> ms@it-infrastrukturen.org
>
>
>
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On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Mark Schneider
<ms@it-infrastrukturen.org>wrote:
> Hello,
>
> It is nearly not possible to use XCP without a tutorial, in particular if
> ones has to use the xe CLI.
> Reading of reference.pdf and guests.pdf of XenServer and different wiki
> pages didn''t help enough.
>
> Even *XCP seems to be a very good software* it will be useless without good
> documentation because of it''s complexity.
>
> Thank you in advance for any hints.
>
> Regards, Mark
>
> --
> ms@it-infrastrukturen.org
>
Mark,
  I''m working on a ton of tutorials as well. They''ll start
showing up soon
at http://grantmcwilliams.com/tech/virtualization/xcp-howtos. They weill be
similar to my Xen tutorials at
http://grantmcwilliams.com/tech/virtualization/xen-howtos.

The first one will not help you much because it''s how to add iSCSI
target
functionality to XCP 1.1. I''ll get to other stuff after that.

Grant McWilliams
gplus.to/grant.mcwilliams


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