[xen-tools-discuss] Regarding installation of xen-tools on XenServer

Tue Mar 11 23:57:48 CET 2014

Hi Jonathan,

The link helps me answer most of my questions but still confused about where exactly these installation steps are to be taken i.e. any local linux machine or xen host. If it has to be locally installed on my machine where do we specify the ip address of the actual Xen host where the guest vm has to get deployed finally.
I have only access to use command line and not vcenter and hence the need.

Thanks,
Kartik

From: Jonathan Aquilina [mailto:eagles051387 at gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 3:42 PM
To: Kartik Shetty (kartishe)
Cc: xen-tools-discuss at xen-tools.org
Subject: Re: [xen-tools-discuss] Regarding installation of xen-tools on XenServer

A quick google did show me this http://www.virtuatopia.com/index.php/Building_a_Xen_Guest_Domain_using_Xen-Tools
I am not sure if or how you would install xen tools on xen server to be honest. But I think you are complicating life. It has been a while since i used xen server and xen center, but there has to be a way you can set a static ip on a vm.

On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 11:36 PM, Kartik Shetty (kartishe) <kartishe at cisco.com<mailto:kartishe at cisco.com>> wrote:
Hi Jonathan,

Thanks for your response.
I completely agree since provisioning is supported on Citrix xen server.
But in my case, I need to perform steps of provisioning of VM's independent of Citirix XenServer.
The usecase should be something like : I login to my xen host/localhost from my vnc and from the vnc console I need to provision/create a VM which uses a specific static ip address instead of dhcp using command-line.
What could the possible solution be to the problem I am facing?

Thanks,
Kartik

From: Jonathan Aquilina [mailto:eagles051387 at gmail.com<mailto:eagles051387 at gmail.com>]
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 3:18 PM
To: Kartik Shetty (kartishe)
Cc: xen-tools-discuss at xen-tools.org<mailto:xen-tools-discuss at xen-tools.org>
Subject: Re: [xen-tools-discuss] Regarding installation of xen-tools on XenServer

If you are using Citrix xen server these tools are not needed at all as xen center manages the provisoning of all VM's

On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 11:05 PM, Kartik Shetty (kartishe) <kartishe at cisco.com<mailto:kartishe at cisco.com>> wrote:
Hello Experts,

I have a query regarding the installation part of xen-tools so that I can successfully use the command xen-create-image to create a VM.
I followed exactly all the steps to install the xen-tools in the XenServer and tried to use the command xen-create-image but ended up with these errors:

xen-create-image
Couldn't find a useful entry in the sources.list files of the Dom0. Tried:
  /etc/apt/sources.list
Couldn't find a useful entry in the sources.list files of the Dom0. Tried:
  /etc/apt/sources.list
Failed to read /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp: No such file or directory[root at mcp-xen-3 etc]#

Let me know if I am doing the right way by having xen-tools installed on XenServer console using XenCenter so that it can create VMs on that xenServer.
Or do I have to install xen-tools outside the XenServer in my local machine and then it should be able to create VM's on the XenServer if I somehow specify the XenServer ip?
Or are these steps of installation done after I have one VM installed on the XenServer using XenCenter and then try to create other VM's using that VM?
I appreciate for any kind of suggestions/solutions relevant to my query.

Thanks,
Kartik

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