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On Thursday 23 June 2011 07:18:38 Albert Hopkins wrote: |
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> On Thursday, June 23 at 09:54 (+0200), Joost Roeleveld said: |
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> > > Any such program to build XenServer appliances (.xva) ? |
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> > Shouldn't it work similarly? |
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> > Eg. start an appliance and install using the stage4? |
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> > I use Xen directly and as long as I can create and fill the partitions |
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> > for the |
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> > VM, any "creation" tool should work. |
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> Yes the stage4 should work similarly. However Pandu was asking about |
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> building ".xva" which I know nothing about, unless an .xva is similar |
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> to/same as a stage4 (I have no idea)? |
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.xva is a format specifically for Citrix Xen. |
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There are tools to convert "classic" Xen VMs to "xva" files: |
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http://www.xen.org/files/xva/README |
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I would be willing to assist in getting this tool to work with your program. |
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All I'd need is a copy of your program along with assistance from Pandu Poluan |
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to test the resulting XVA files. |
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I do not run Citrix XenServer and have no need for it as Xen itself works fine |
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for me. |
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Joost |
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