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

[Jonathan Aquilina]

Hey Axel I think both vmware server and Xen Server are based of RHEL. Last
I checked they had released xen server 6 which seems inline with RHEL 6


On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 12:20 AM, Axel Beckert <abe at deuxchevaux.org> wrote:

> 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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