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Archived - the Xen and ARM support in MirageOS has been superseeded by our PVH support - Build an SDcard image for Xen/ARM, for a Cubieboard

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Install and run Xapi #51

Closed djs55 closed 9 years ago

djs55 commented 9 years ago

VMs can be uploaded and run via the XenAPI and xe
- The mirage-generated .xe file works
The host can be managed via XenCenter (and presumably XenOrchestra)
Historical performance metrics are gathered by xcp-rrdd
VM disks are stored as thinly-provisioned LVM volumes, via ezlvm
The host physical networks are managed by xcp-networkd
- Note the default bridge name is now xenbr0 rather than br0

Note that Xapi runs in parallel with other 'toolstacks' so it is still possible to use xl or libvirt.

Signed-off-by: David Scott dave.scott@citrix.com

djs55 commented 9 years ago

Not entirely perfect yet, but it is now running mirage-www on my cubie@home. The future is here!

avsm commented 9 years ago

This is really wonderful, thank you!

avsm commented 9 years ago

I'm wondering what the best way to merge this is. Should be have an alternate build with XenServer, or just bite the bullet and not support a non-XS image on ARM? There's a lot of benefit in just having the nice storage and XML-RPC APIs, particularly with a view to monitoring and building a distributed ARM cloud in the future.

djs55 commented 9 years ago

On 11 Feb 2015 11:02, "Anil Madhavapeddy" notifications@github.com wrote:

I'm wondering what the best way to merge this is. Should be have an alternate build with XenServer, or just bite the bullet and not support a non-XS image on ARM? There's a lot of benefit in just having the nice storage and XML-RPC APIs, particularly with a view to monitoring and building a distributed ARM cloud in the future.

I believe that it's still possible to manage your VMs manually with xl/libxl or with libvirt -- this change gives you an extra option. Xapi will manage its VMs only; libvirt will manage its VMs only; and, well xl/libxl just shows you everything (expert user mode?)

The only downside that I can think of is that the image is slightly bigger.

As a separate issue there are probably still some silly bugs in the .debs I've built. Now that I'm routinely using this I should be able to squash those and update my binary repo.

Cheers, Dave

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avsm commented 9 years ago

Thanks, I'll merge this in after I try it on my cubie at home!