Image Breakdown

Concept: Hypervisor box is not itself on the internet (except thru VPN? Make it the VPN checkpoint?)

TODO

• Fix PDSH hostfile once I have IP addr's figured out
• Ditto for OpenVPN

Setup For Windows

• In the Xen image directory, make the image file: dd if=/dev/zero of=mpp oflag=direct bs=4M seek=2047 count=1
• Copy the windows CD to an iso image: dd if=/dev/cdrom of=win2000.iso bs=2048
• Set up a Xen config file like this:

kernel = '/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader'
builder = 'hvm'
memory = '256'
device_model='/usr/lib64/xen/bin/qemu-dm'

# Disks.  Node hda and hdc are local to the xen image; they do not
#  correspond to the physical drive info on the host
disk = [ 'file:/share/xen/mpp.img,ioemu:hda,w',
'file:/share/xen/windows_images/win2000.iso,ioemu:hdc:cdrom,r' ]

# However, the 'cdrom' specification IS the CDRom of the host; 
#  though the more I think about it the less I think I actually used it
cdrom='/dev/scd0'

# Hostname
name = 'mpp'

# Networking
vif = ['type=ioemu, bridge=xenbr0']

ne2000=0

# Start with boot='d' first to boot from CDROM.  
#  After setup restarts, change to 'c'
boot='c'

# if set like this, a VNC window will pop up
vnc=0
vncviewer=1
sdl=0

• Then do xm create mpp

-- MattWalsh - 20 Oct 2008