I should clarify. The Vyatta package is available in three download
formats. One is the Vmware image. Another is the XenServer image. The
third is the ISO file.
I presumed I would be using the ISO and trying to install on a DomU. I am
fully aware that Xen (open source) is not the same product as XenServer.
I am using Xen (open source).
Tom
On Wed, November 11, 2009 9:39 am, Dustin Henning wrote:
> I didn't realize that is what XCP was. Even so, it is presumably
> still not the same as the version Tom is running, since XCP presumably
> doesn't have a Debian dom0, right?
> Dustin
>
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> Kärkkäinen
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> Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Vyatta ISO in DomU
>
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 08:21:54AM -0500, Dustin Henning wrote:
>> XenServer is not open source Xen, so there won't be direct steps.
>>
>
> Actually XenServer was opensourced last week as XCP (Xen Cloud
> Platform).
>
> -- Pasi
>
>> First you need to determine whether the ISO has an installer or some
>> sort
> of
>> XenServer vm image. If it is an installer, then as Fajar suggested, you
> can
>> install it to HVM. You may then be able to convert it to PV. If it is
>> a
> vm
>> image, you will have to figure out what kind of image it is and try to
> pull
>> the data off of it and onto whatever type of image(s) or block device(s)
> you
>> want to use. You will then have to try to fire it up and hope for the
> best.
>> Even in this scenario, HVM might be a better way to start, converting to
> PV.
>> That is, assuming it has its own kernel. It's really going to be trial
> and
>> error, so it might even be easier to just install Vyatta on an existing
>> PV
>> domU and forget about the ISO image. Good luck with whatever you decide
> to
>> do,
>> Dustin
>>
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>> Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 23:15
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>> Subject: [Xen-users] Vyatta ISO in DomU
>>
>> A friend of mine recommended checking out the Vyatta project. I was
>> reviewing their website and saw endorsements of their product running on
>> both Vmware and Xen. In fact, they have a Vmware virtual image and a
>> beta
>> XenServer image.
>>
>> However, I am running a typical Debian Lenny 64 DomU installed through
>> the
>> repositories. According to their installation documents, it states that
>> the ISO can be installed into a DomU as well. However, they don't
>> provide
>> any instructions on how to do this.
>>
>> Is someone in the Xen community willing to walk me through the steps to
>> install an ISO image onto a DomU? I have been running Xen for sometime
>> including some more advanced topics like PCI pass through for PCI
>> devices.
>> But I haven't done an ISO install before.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tom
>>
>>
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