Difference between revisions of "GSP Virtualisation with Xen"
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= Client installation and configuration = | = Client installation and configuration = | ||
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| + | == Creating template-based PV guests using existing disk images == | ||
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| + | By default, the VM templates will install a new machine, and the PV templates in particular will want to trirveie an install image from HTTP, NFS or CD-ROM. This may not be what you want if you have an existing image. The difference is in the PV-bootloader which is set after creating the VM configuration. By default, it's the 'eliloader', but to just start the VM ti should be 'pygrub'. | ||
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| + | To obtain the current PV boot loader: | ||
| + | xe vm-param-get uuid=7dff5ebc-f348-718e-72d7-850670897469 param-name=PV-bootloader | ||
| + | will return <tt>eliloader</tt>, and to set it to boot the system: | ||
| + | xe vm-param-set uuid=7dff5ebc-f348-718e-72d7-850670897469 PV-bootloader=pygrub | ||
= Storage = | = Storage = | ||
