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On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 14:02 +0100, Rob Dyke wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Asrai,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I build from my own mirror of fedora/rhel installation source using </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">kickstart files... I can build a new domU in about 15 minutes with a </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">tight package selection based on the server task.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">You could also look at <A HREF="http://xen-tools.org/index.html">http://xen-tools.org/index.html</A></FONT>
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Have you looking into Cobbler for remote provisioning?<BR>
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<A HREF="http://cobbler.et.redhat.com/">http://cobbler.et.redhat.com</A><BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Rob</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Asrai khn wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Hi I am wondering is there an easy way to configure domU (vm) quickly, </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> atm we are using eg LV (Logical Volumes) to storge root, var and swap </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> for VM and then using </FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> disk = [ 'phy:vg/myvmdisk1,sda1,w', ... ,... ] to launch it.</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> We takes the tar gunzip of file system of root, var of currently </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> running vm and when need arrives we just have to created LVs and </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> untar the achieves and launch the new vm with very little changes.</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Only one problem in this approach is that we get little outdated vm </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> which need to update using 'yum'. So is there a way to start new vm </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> fast and using currently updated running vm file system?</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Thanks. Askar.</FONT>
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