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Announcing xen-tools
Posted by Steve on Mon 19 Dec 2005 at 16:34
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Since writing a quick tool to create Xen images for the introduction to Xen article the script has undergone significant changes.

Goaded by Radu Spineanu there will shortly be a package uploaded to Debian Unstable. (He will maintain it, and I'll be co-maintainer.) Once it lands in unstable I'll host a Sarge backport at my apt-get repository for Sarge.

The new script(s) can:

  • Create Xen images of Debian Sarge, complete with networking setup + OpenSSH.
  • Delete Xen images.
  • Run "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" on unmounted/offline images.
  • Clone an existing image into a new instance - updating the network setup so the new image gets a distinct IP address.

Find it at the xen-tools homepage, via the freshmeat listing, or look at the xen-tools CVS repository.

Enough spamming, back to sleep now ..

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#1
Xen
Posted by sebastian (82.134.xx.xx) on Mon 19 Dec 2005 at 20:09
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I like youre things on Xen! I want to use Xen on some of my servers. It's a great tool for virtualisation.

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Re: Xen
Posted by Steve (82.41.xx.xx) on Mon 19 Dec 2005 at 20:13
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Thanks.

I think when I'm working again I'll certainly be looking for opportunities to use it in production, so far testing indicates it works very nicely for the things I've tried.

I love the ability to migrate a running machine to a completely different host!

Steve

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Re: Xen
Posted by sebastian (82.134.xx.xx) on Mon 19 Dec 2005 at 20:37
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Yes, that is a nice thing. Just copy the files an configs and run the "same server" on an other machine. At the beginning next year I have more time scheduled for testing and exploring Xen. I will post the interesting thing over here.

For a company where I work for they have VMWare GSX servers for the Citrix envirement. It's very easy expanding and migrating :) Saves us a lot of time.

Cheers, Sebastian

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Re: Announcing xen-tools
Posted by Anonymous (62.254.xx.xx) on Tue 20 Dec 2005 at 23:39
wasn't aware that you had a backports section , thanks steve.

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Re: Announcing xen-tools
Posted by Steve (82.41.xx.xx) on Tue 20 Dec 2005 at 23:41
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No problem. It really is just a tiny archive of stuff that I found useful for me. If other people use it then so much the better.

I think I'm listed upon apt-get.org, but it has been a while so I'm not 100% sure.

Steve

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Re: Announcing xen-tools
Posted by eric (194.2.xx.xx) on Mon 16 Jan 2006 at 16:07
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I finally got a little time to test the xen-tools utilities. The first thing which blocked me was: is it possible to use xen-create-image on a disk partition (real one or LVM LV)? or is it only useful with files?
Since I try it, i mostly use LVM on servers and i put my xen domU-s on it, so if xen-tools can use it... better...

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Re: Announcing xen-tools
Posted by Steve (82.41.xx.xx) on Mon 16 Jan 2006 at 16:11
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There is no support for LVM at this time, only files. As is noted in the TODO section of the README file.

I don't have access to a system with both LVM + Xen upon it. If I did I would add it - in the meantime anybody who contributes support will be my new best friend ;)

Steve

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