Re: [ANNOUNCE] Prebuilt Xen PV-HVM templates.

[Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@xen.org>]

Thanks for the effort: do ping me when you guys are ready
Also when LiveCD's and the library is in place, that would be a great 
guest blog post on xen.org
Regards
Lars

On 03/04/2012 14:30, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 11:46:47AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
>> On Mon, 2012-04-02 at 18:59 +0100, Joseph Glanville wrote:
>>> On 3 April 2012 02:11, Ian Campbell<Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>  wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 2012-04-01 at 19:16 +0100, Joseph Glanville wrote:
>>>>> Hi guys,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have started preparing a library of PV-HVM templates for use on Xen
>>>>> 4.X+ and PVOPS dom0.
>>>> [...]
>>>>> Initially there is Debian 6, CentOS 6.2 and Ubuntu 12.04 available
>>>>> (the final beta, will be updated to final shortly).
>>>>> Included is an OS image, a config file, a README and the associated
>>>>> licences etc.
>>>> This is very cool, and you are correct that these will be very useful
>>>> for people trying to get something going quickly! Thanks Joseph.
>>> No problem, I am working on a new dom0 livecd too.
>>>
>>> I need some recommendations on what distro to base it on though...
>>> Personally Gentoo is easiest for me but I think Ubuntu 12.04 is going
>>> to be more enduring and a more beginner approachable alternative.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have any thoughts on this?
> I've been working with the Alpine Linux guys (http://alpinelinux.org/)
> for some time, and we managed to get a working Xen LiveCD, next major
> release (2.4 I think) it's gonna come with Xen Dom0 LiveCDs, since all
> the necessary bits have been added to the upstream distro build
> scripts. You can take a look at the build scripts here:
>
> http://git.alpinelinux.org/cgit/alpine-iso/
>
> It's really easy to generate a LiveCD iso, you just need a working
> Alpine Linux install (which can be a VM) and the alpine-iso scripts.
>
>> My personal preference would be Debian ;-) But pragmatically Ubuntu is,
>> I think, generally thought to be a good beginner distro and conveniently
>> it now contains support for Xen so that seems like a good choice.
>>
>> Also on the plus side is that Ubuntu may well contain the "Debian Live"
>> packages/infrastructure which make building Live CDs easier (I presume,
>> I've never tried them). I don't know if that's actually what is used by
>> Ubuntu to make their live CDs, if not then I'd hope that infrastructure
>> was in Ubuntu too.
>>
>> Ian.
>>
>>>>> The images are bz2 compressed blockdevice images suitable for use on
>>>>> LVM or a file backed tapdisk if you have the appropriate backend.
>>>>> (alternatively you can use the loop device but this is discouraged)
>>>>> All images have serial console enabled, PV network and block devices,
>>>>> fixed udev rules etc.
>>>>>
>>>>> I will add more info about them, an FAQ about how they are setup and
>>>>> what you should do to customize them, expand the disk image etc soon.
>>>>>
>>>>> I am looking for someone to mirror these in the US for me, please
>>>>> email me if you have spare bandwith.
>>>>>
>>>>> Joseph.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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