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RE: [Xen-users] Diskless xen

To: "Denis J. Cirulis" <denis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-users] Diskless xen
From: "James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 10:43:58 +1000
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> Hello,
> 
> I want to implement a diskless xen hypervisor. The way I suppose it
will
> work is xen booted over pxe and
> getting iscsi san storage to store vm images.
> 
> Is solution like that usable ?

I used AoE via a few custom scripts in Debian's mkinitramfs. It worked
great for what I wanted. iSCSI is a bit more involved to set up, but as
long as you can boot Linux over iSCSI, Xen shouldn't add any
complications.

James


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