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

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

I have no experience with XenServer/XenCenter, hence some of my
questions may appear to have obvious answer, but I just don't know it. :-)

On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 10:05:19PM +0000, Kartik Shetty (kartishe) wrote:
> 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]#

This looks like xen-tools can't correctly determine which Linux
distribution its running on. The error message comes from
xt-guess-suite-and-mirror which is only suited for Debian-based
distributions. Maybe some defaults, like using
xt-guess-suite-and-mirror in xen-tools.conf, are too Debian-centric.
I'll put it on my TODO list as this needs some time to test as it
involves setting up a non-debianesk Dom0.

So two questions from me:

Which is the source of steps to install xen-tools? (If it's a file in
the source tar-ball it maybe needs a revamp.)

On which Linux distribution is XenServer based on?

If it's based on RedHat, maybe the RPMs from Fedora do work better
than a (suspected) installation from source, as I suspect that Dario
knows a little bit better how to fine tune stuff on RPM based Dom0s
than me. See
http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2013/01/24/using-xen-tools-on-fedora/

Dario: Any insight for me what default settings you had to change?

		Kind regards, Axel
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