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

[Kartik Shetty (kartishe)]

Hi Everyone,

Can I have some package like a xen-tools or XApi(XenApi) installed in a linux box outside of the XenServer/Dom0 which will talk to the Dom0 to create VMs?
If yes what package should I download and how do I specify the ip of my xen-server so that the linux box can talk to it?

Thanks,
Kartik

From: xen-tools-discuss-bounces at xen-tools.org [mailto:xen-tools-discuss-bounces at xen-tools.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan Aquilina
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 4:22 PM
To: xen-tools-discuss at xen-tools.org
Subject: Re: [xen-tools-discuss] Regarding installation of xen-tools on XenServer

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<mailto: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
--
/~\  Plain Text Ribbon Campaign                   | Axel Beckert
\ /  Say No to HTML in E-Mail and News            | abe at deuxchevaux.org<mailto:abe at deuxchevaux.org>  (Mail)
 X   See http://www.nonhtmlmail.org/campaign.html | abe at noone.org<mailto:abe at noone.org> (Mail+Jabber)
/ \  I love long mails: http://email.is-not-s.ms/ | http://noone.org/abe/ (Web)
_______________________________________________
xen-tools-discuss mailing list
xen-tools-discuss at xen-tools.org<mailto:xen-tools-discuss at xen-tools.org>
https://xen-tools.org/mailman/listinfo/xen-tools-discuss



--
Jonathan Aquilina
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://xen-tools.org/pipermail/xen-tools-discuss/attachments/20140317/d8c76f6a/attachment.html>