[Fedora-xen] easy way to configure domU

[Andrew Cathrow]

On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 14:02 +0100, Rob Dyke wrote:

> Asrai,
> 
> I build from my own mirror of fedora/rhel installation source using 
> kickstart files... I can build a new domU in about 15 minutes with a 
> tight package selection based on the server task.
> 
> You could also look at http://xen-tools.org/index.html


Have you looking into Cobbler for remote provisioning?

http://cobbler.et.redhat.com


> 
> Rob
> 
> Asrai khn wrote:
> > Hi I am wondering is there an easy way to configure domU (vm) quickly, 
> > atm we are using eg LV (Logical Volumes) to storge root, var and swap 
> > for VM and then using 
> >
> > disk = [ 'phy:vg/myvmdisk1,sda1,w', ... ,...  ] to launch it.
> >
> > We takes the tar gunzip of file system of root, var of currently 
> > running vm and when need arrives we just have to created  LVs and 
> > untar the achieves and launch the new vm with very little changes.
> >
> > Only one problem in this approach is that we get little outdated vm 
> > which need to update using 'yum'. So is there a way to start new vm 
> > fast and using currently updated running vm file system?
> >
> > Thanks. Askar.
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