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| + | [[XenServer]] and the binary XCP distribution have the ability to have supplemental packs. Once these are ready, all the following steps can be performed by a set of [[OpenStack]] supplemental packs. | ||
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| + | There are plans to build a supplemental pack that can fetch and install a pre-prepared DomU templated. | ||
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| + | One big advantage of having these packs, is that they can be installed as part of a [[XenServer/PXEInstall|PXE install of XenServer]]. | ||
Revision as of 11:32, 22 March 2012
Post Install steps to prepare XenServer for OpenStack
Some hints on preparing your XenServer machine to work with OpenStack.
XenAPI Plugins
OpenStack has some plugins to XenAPI. These must be installed in either:
- /etc/xapi.d/plugins/ (XenServer)
- /usr/lib/xcp/plugins/ (XCP on Ubuntu)
You can get the plugins from here: https://github.com/openstack/nova/tree/master/plugins/xenserver/xenapi
Please note the plugins will not work correctly if they are not executable. They should have the correct permission in GitHub, but take care not to loose them when you copy them onto your XenServer host.
VIF Isolation Rules
There are some docs on this here: https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/master/plugins/xenserver/doc/networking.rst
You can get these from here: https://github.com/openstack/nova/tree/master/plugins/xenserver/networking
SSH configuration
To allow features like resize where a vhd disk is copied using ssh and rsyc, you will need to configure password-less login between all your XenServer hosts.
You can find much information on how to do this. One such source is: http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/jpmg/ssh/authorized_keys_howto.html
Required Directories
It would seem to make resize work, you need to run the following command on your XenServer hosts:
mkdir /images
Supplimental Packs
XenServer and the binary XCP distribution have the ability to have supplemental packs. Once these are ready, all the following steps can be performed by a set of OpenStack supplemental packs.
There are plans to build a supplemental pack that can fetch and install a pre-prepared DomU templated.
One big advantage of having these packs, is that they can be installed as part of a PXE install of XenServer.
