Thank you for your reply. Your tutorials are very helpful and much appreciated. At the moment I do not have OpenXenCenter installed and will try to get it installed as it appears that it makes life easier. At the moment my invocation of wget runs and connects with the download site but keeps getting dropped.
Meanwhile, I don't have the Windows Server 2003 installed on the its VM template yet but I'm getting closer (I think). It seems that when I start the VM with the CD in the drive, I can see the drive spin up etc but then nothing happens beyond that. I was expecting to see the installer load or some such. I've looked at your other post regarding your HVM settings. Here's what my configuration looks like at the moment.
[root@pmx004 ~]# xe vm-param-list uuid=1d1c7873-0d08-e519-3545-26db09bce9ed
uuid ( RO) : 1d1c7873-0d08-e519-3545-26db09bce9ed
name-label ( RW): WSServer2003_01
name-description ( RW): Installed via xe CLI
user-version ( RW): 1
is-a-template ( RW): false
is-a-snapshot ( RO): false
snapshot_of ( RO): <not in database>
snapshots ( RO):
snapshot_time ( RO): 19700101T00:00:00Z
snapshot-info ( RO):
parent ( RO): eb767dcc-f1d2-11ba-0b45-e64fc716216f
children ( RO):
is-control-domain ( RO): false
power-state ( RO): halted
memory-actual ( RO): 536784896
memory-target ( RO): 0
memory-overhead ( RO): 7340032
memory-static-max ( RW): 536870912
memory-dynamic-max ( RW): 536870912
memory-dynamic-min ( RW): 536870912
memory-static-min ( RW): 268435456
suspend-VDI-uuid ( RO): <not in database>
VCPUs-params (MRW):
VCPUs-max ( RW): 1
VCPUs-at-startup ( RW): 1
actions-after-shutdown ( RW): Destroy
actions-after-reboot ( RW): Restart
actions-after-crash ( RW): Restart
console-uuids (SRO):
platform (MRW): timeoffset: 0; nx: false; acpi: true; apic: true; pae: true; viridian: true
allowed-operations (SRO): changing_dynamic_range; changing_static_range; make_into_template; destroy; export; start_on; start; create_template; clone; copy; snapshot
current-operations (SRO):
blocked-operations (MRW):
allowed-VBD-devices (SRO): 1; 2
allowed-VIF-devices (SRO): 0; 1; 2; 3
possible-hosts ( RO): 62c35377-09c5-4b0f-a43a-0cff42dd1add
HVM-boot-policy ( RW): BIOS order
HVM-boot-params (MRW): order: dc
HVM-shadow-multiplier ( RW): 1.000
PV-kernel ( RW):
PV-ramdisk ( RW):
PV-args ( RW):
PV-legacy-args ( RW):
PV-bootloader ( RW):
PV-bootloader-args ( RW):
last-boot-CPU-flags ( RO):
last-boot-record ( RO): '('struct' ('uuid' '1d1c7873-0d08-e519-3545-26db09bce9ed') ('allowed_operations' ('array')) ('current_operations' ('struct' ('OpaqueRef:8e76b8c8-4f6e-db16-a675-6747386a2b38' 'start'))) ('power_state' 'Halted') ('name_label' 'WSServer2003_01') ('name_description' 'Installed via xe CLI') ('user_version' '1') ('is_a_template' ('boolean' '0')) ('suspend_VDI' 'OpaqueRef:NULL') ('resident_on' 'OpaqueRef:NULL') ('affinity' 'OpaqueRef:NULL') ('memory_overhead' '7340032') ('memory_target' '536870912') ('memory_static_max' '536870912') ('memory_dynamic_max' '536870912') ('memory_dynamic_min' '536870912') ('memory_static_min' '268435456') ('VCPUs_params' ('struct')) ('VCPUs_max' '1') ('VCPUs_at_startup' '1') ('actions_after_shutdown' 'destroy') ('actions_after_reboot' 'restart') ('actions_after_crash' 'restart') ('consoles' ('array')) ('VIFs' ('array')) ('VBDs' ('array' 'OpaqueRef:71cd561b-d7df-6aea-66e0-f53abd93e0fe' 'OpaqueRef:c3f54148-f2d5-5add-5d75-f609d79e60ff')) ('crash_dumps' ('array')) ('VTPMs' ('array')) ('PV_bootloader' '') ('PV_kernel' '') ('PV_ramdisk' '') ('PV_args' '') ('PV_bootloader_args' '') ('PV_legacy_args' '') ('HVM_boot_policy' 'BIOS order') ('HVM_boot_params' ('struct' ('order' 'dc'))) ('HVM_shadow_multiplier' ('double' '1')) ('platform' ('struct' ('timeoffset' '0') ('nx' 'false') ('acpi' 'true') ('apic' 'true') ('pae' 'true') ('viridian' 'true'))) ('PCI_bus' '') ('other_config' ('struct' ('last_shutdown_time' '20100623T18:39:55Z') ('last_shutdown_action' 'Destroy') ('last_shutdown_initiator' 'external') ('last_shutdown_reason' 'halted') ('install-repository' 'cdrom') ('mac_seed' 'ae23e3b1-b6e3-ffae-7fb7-9eaaab007ef8') ('install-methods' 'cdrom'))) ('domid' '-1') ('domarch' 'hvm') ('last_boot_CPU_flags' ('struct')) ('is_control_domain' ('boolean' '0')) ('metrics' 'OpaqueRef:7a428265-5335-1b7b-5c0f-1b13818f11fe') ('guest_metrics' 'OpaqueRef:NULL') ('last_booted_record' '') ('recommendations' '<restrictions><restriction field=\"memory-static-max\" max=\"34359738368\" /><restriction field=\"vcpus-max\" max=\"8\" /><restriction property=\"number-of-vbds\" max=\"7\" /><restriction property=\"number-of-vifs\" max=\"7\" /></restrictions>') ('xenstore_data' ('struct')) ('ha_always_run' ('boolean' '0')) ('ha_restart_priority' '') ('is_a_snapshot' ('boolean' '0')) ('snapshot_of' 'OpaqueRef:NULL') ('snapshots' ('array')) ('snapshot_time' ('dateTime.iso8601' '19700101T00:00:00Z')) ('transportable_snapshot_id' '') ('blobs' ('struct')) ('tags' ('array')) ('blocked_operations' ('struct')) ('snapshot_info' ('struct')) ('snapshot_metadata' '') ('parent' 'OpaqueRef:2d342a4b-50a7-a114-c499-31e700309db6') ('children' ('array')) ('bios_strings' ('struct')))'
resident-on ( RO): <not in database>
affinity ( RW): <not in database>
other-config (MRW): last_shutdown_time: 20100623T18:41:07Z; last_shutdown_action: Destroy; last_shutdown_initiator: external; last_shutdown_reason: halted; install-repository: cdrom; mac_seed: ae23e3b1-b6e3-ffae-7fb7-9eaaab007ef8; install-methods: cdrom
dom-id ( RO): -1
recommendations ( RO): <restrictions><restriction field="memory-static-max" max="34359738368" /><restriction field="vcpus-max" max="8" /><restriction property="number-of-vbds" max="7" /><restriction property="number-of-vifs" max="7" /></restrictions>
xenstore-data (MRW):
ha-always-run ( RW): false
ha-restart-priority ( RW):
blobs ( RO):
start-time ( RO): 20100623T18:40:45Z
install-time ( RO): 20100623T15:55:03Z
VCPUs-number ( RO): 1
VCPUs-utilisation (MRO):
os-version (MRO): <not in database>
PV-drivers-version (MRO): <not in database>
PV-drivers-up-to-date ( RO): <not in database>
memory (MRO): <not in database>
disks (MRO): <not in database>
networks (MRO): <not in database>
other (MRO): <not in database>
live ( RO): <not in database>
guest-metrics-last-updated ( RO): <not in database>
cooperative ( RO): true
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 5:04 AM, Stephen Spector
<stephen.spector@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I installed Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) following the steps in
the XCP Installation Guide. Next I want to install two VMs (SLES 10 and Windows
Server 2003) to use as a testing platform for a product under
development.
The XCP Virtual Machine Installation Guide states that "The Windows VM can
be installed either from an install CD in a physical CD-ROM on the Xen Cloud
Platform host, or from an ISO image of your Windows media." I
would like to install from the install CD. My question though is
how? I don't see a series of basic steps in the guide. The guide
earlier states that VMs are installed from templates. So I installed the
template for Windows Server 2003 SP2 using the XE tool:
xe vm-install new-name-label=<name>
template-uuid=<uuid_of_desired_template>
If I issue xe vm-list I can see the template installed. It lists:
uuid (
RO)
: 1bd800c9-4ccf-a786-6436-a34a3eec108c
name-label ( RW): Windows Server 2003
power-state: ( RO): running
That seems well and good. But now I'm really stuck as to what the next step is
to install the Windows Server 2003 from CD. I've looked through all the
xe VM commands in the Reference guide for clues which I'm sure are there and
obvious to the more experienced of you out there. I'm new to this domain and
have been asked to explore it by my team as a potential platform for our
testing purposes.
Take a look at http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2010/03/19/xcp-tutorial-creation-of-a-windows-7-guest/
which has the instructions I used to install Win7 from a CD on XCP. Thanks.
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