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On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 15:35, Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info> wrote: |
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> Hi list! |
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> If you've used XenServer, you know that to properly manage your guest |
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> VMs you need to install Citrix XenTools in the guest VM. |
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> The problem is, the supplied installation script only supports Debian |
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> (sarge up to squeeze and sid), Ubuntu (lucid), RHEL/CentOS (4 to 6), |
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> and SLES (9 to 11). No support for Gentoo. |
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> Christopher Wojno indeed had shared a way to install XenTools in |
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> Gentoo in his blog: |
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> http://christopher.wojno.com/2009/08/11/gentoo-domu-in-xenserver |
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> However, his method is mostly manual, and in addition it installs an |
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> initscript that's *not* compatible with OpenRC. |
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> Thus, I've cooked up a script to automate the process *and* at the |
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> same time create an OpenRC-compatible initscript. |
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Script is now available via Mercurial: |
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https://bitbucket.org/pepoluan/install-xe-guest-utilities-for-gentoo |
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Rgds, |
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