On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 12:17:47PM -0400, Gaurav Maheshbhai Patel wrote:
> Well good to hear that you are working on same kind of project.
> I was wondering about your suggestion. If we make a copy/snapshot of it. Then
> Installing fresh copy of Some linux distro....
> 1) How can we do that?
Depends on the type of distribution you've got. For Debian dom0 you
can use tools like debootstrap to automatically install fresh copies
of Debian inside a directory/partition. Similarly you could use a tool
like rpmstrap to install copies of CentOS. (Though rpmstrap is very
fragile and prone to breakage).
> 2) If we do that then, doesn't it take the same time to installing new distro
> on guest?
I don't fully understand what you're asking there. If you're using
a tool like rpmstrap, or debootstrap, then it'd take a few minutes to
install (or more depending on your network link).
If you had several Linux distribution images locally you could do
a copy in a few seconds.
(That's what we do at work - we have a collection of configured Linux
distributions mounted read-only, and we simply copy those into new
guests automatically. The process of installing Gentoo, Debian,
Ubuntu, or CentOS takes only a few minutes - but it does rely upon
you creating the "source" installations manually first. There are
a small collection of fixups applied after the copy to setup unique
IPs, hostnames, etc, but otherwise the new copies are basically
clones of the centralized master copy of each distribution.)
> Also have you looked at the snap shot of guest-magic on sourceforge.net?
Yes ..
> Well IP assignment is still issue there because of short deadline of the
> project. But we are still going to do that.
> Also, can you please tell me about what are you working on?
> Might be it helps us some what
xen-tools :
http://xen-tools.org/software/xen-tools/
Developed and used primarily upon Debian GNU/Linux, but apparently
portable to things like CentOS and Fedora Core.
Steve
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