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Re: [Xen-users] XCP which management console to use - plus XenServer que

To: József Dániel <daniel.jozsef@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] XCP which management console to use - plus XenServer question
From: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:09:20 +0300
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On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 09:34:47AM +0200, József Dániel wrote:
> 
> Since I haven't found a single proper management console for XCP, and
> ssh management is living hell with all the GUIDs, I had a go with
> XenServer free. It didn't work. Installs nice, but after booting up,
> it doesn't see the local repository. Note, it does create the repo, I
> checked with fdisk, it just doesn't see it. Any idea? 

Did you try searching Citrix XenServer forums?


> (Also, what exactly does XCP do that XenServer doesn't, and vice versa?)
> 

http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/XCP/XenServer_Feature_Matrix


-- Pasi

> 
> On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 8:07 AM, Grant McWilliams
> <grantmasterflash@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Outback Dingo <outbackdingo@xxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> install the xenwebmanager appliance on XCP, upload the .xva file and
> >> run xe vm-import filename=xenwebmanager.xva
> >> then xe vm-start xenwemanager
> >>
> >> figure out the ip it got from dhcp
> >>
> >> then goto the http://ip-from-dhcp/8080
> >>
> >> add the server ip for the XCP hosts and login / password
> >>
> >> and yes you can console to running guests from xenwebmanager
> >>
> >> 2011/9/10 Chris Petrolino <cpetrolino@xxxxxxxxx>:
> >> > I'm pretty sure openxenmanger is still quite alive it's just a case of
> >> > few 'or actually one I think' developer so the dev cycle is a bit slow. 
> >> > Not
> >> > sure how hard it is to get it working on osx though.
> >> >
> >> > Kind Regards,
> >> >
> >> > Christopher James Petrolino
> >> >
> >> >
> >
> > openxenmanager was abandoned by the original author because he couldn't get
> > any support from Citrix and has since stopped using XCP. Another person took
> > over but hasn't really done anything yet from what I understand.
> > OpenXenManager does work and is nice to look at but is buggy as heck. You'll
> > find yourself restarting it a lot. XenWebManager is the web version of the
> > same code and most of the links to it have disappeared although the xva
> > noted above is at
> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/xenwebmanager/files/appliances/. The last
> > update seems to be a year old.
> >
> > I went through the same process looking for a graphical management interface
> > and settled on xvp appliance which has been rock solid so far. It doesn't
> > have all of the abilities of Openxenmanager but what it does it does
> > reliably. That includes start/stop/restart/console which is what I needed.
> >
> > Grant McWilliams
> >
> 
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