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xen-tools v0.4
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This archive contains a collection of Perl scripts for working with
Xen images under Debian GNU/Linux.
It is primarily aimed at people who wish to create instances of
Debian Sarge, however 'Etch', and 'Sid' are also available.
The tools all work in a similar way and each ahve the same assumptions.
It is assumed that each virtual image will be comprised of two files
upon the host system: One for the primary drive, and one for the swap.
The images are all assumed to live beneath the same root directory -
this directory is an argument to all the scripts and may be set with
'--dir=/path/to/root'.
(Alternatively the directory may be included in the global configuration
file.)
The scripts are now described individually:
xen-create-image
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This is a simple script which is designed to create new images of
Debian Sarge which may be used with the Xen virtual machine.
xen-clone-image
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This allows a simple cloning operation to be conducted. An existing
image will be copied to a new directory and the networking information
will be updated. No other changes are applied.
xen-delete-image
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This script will delete an image by hostname.
xen-list-images
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List all the created images, along with the network address.
(Or just 'DHCP' for dynamically configured images.)
xen-update-image
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This script runs "apt-get update; apt-get upgrade" for a given
Xen image.
NOTE: The image should not be mounted/live/running or things will
be corrupted. (Still if the image is "live" you may just use SSH, right?)
TODO
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1. Test more filesystem types.
2. Move each file copying / creation into a seperate routine.
3. See if there can be simple tests made without splitting things
into modules..
4. Add --verbose.
5. Detect and handle a failure in `debootstrap`.
6. domU kernel to be moved to config file.
Steve
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$Id: README,v 1.9 2005-12-20 17:33:58 steve Exp $