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On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 18:18, Albert Hopkins <marduk@×××××××××××.org> 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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Um, an ".xva" is more like a qcow2 file. |
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With Citrix' XenCenter, all I have to do is "import" the xva, and |
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XenServer automagically creates a VM with a specified RAM, specified |
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storage, specified cores, etc. |
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Of course these settings (RAM, storage, cores) can be modified |
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post-import, but usually xva-makers already set the settings to the |
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recommended minimum. So, it saves the xva users from planning stage |
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:-) |
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Plus, xva-packaged appliances are usually already configured to run in |
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PV-mode, thus giving the highest performance over XenServer. |
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Rgds, |
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