From: Peter Nixon (listuser_at_peternixon.net)
Date: Tue Jul 18 2006 - 10:21:10 CEST
From: Peter Nixon <listuser@peternixon.net> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 11:21:10 +0300 Message-Id: <200607181121.15866.listuser@peternixon.net> Subject: [suse-sles-e] Re: SLES10 RC3 and YaST XEN Tools - Working OK?
On Sun 16 Jul 2006 22:14, L. Mark Stone wrote:
> In SuSE 10.1, we found the YaST tool for creating a new virtual machine
> from scratch would always fail, saying the newly created vm could not be
> started. We tried a number of different methods, finally settling on
> using the xen cli tools and manually editing config files. It works,
> but we are not 100% comfortable and want to migrate to SLES10 as soon as
> practicable.
>
> We are now testing SLES10 RC3 to see if this YaST module and the other
> bits have been fixed.
>
> So far, the tool does generate a few errors, but now at least the
> console for the to-be-installed vm starts and it boots the installation
> cdrom.
>
> Has anyone else tested this with RC3 outside of Novell, and what have
> been your results? We are looking at putting the virtual machine files
> into separate lvm partitions, so we can migrate them to a SAN easily at
> a later date (or expand them prior to their move if need be).
>
> It's either SLES10 or VMware Infrastructure3, and we need to make a
> decision in the next few weeks.
We have also unfortunately been unable to make YaST successfully create a Xen
vm with the release candidates. Command line tools do work however. I am now
downloading the SLES 10 release dvd for x86_64 and I will see if it's any
better...
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