On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Gabriel - IP Guys <gabr...@impactteachers.com> wrote: > Dear All, > > I've finally managed to get xen installed on a remote system via puppet > http://puppetnewbie.blogspot.com/2010/05/installing-xen-instance.html > > I was about to create my test machines manually, when it occurred to me, > that I should be doing this via puppet. Hence my question in the > subject. I was given some advice on the irc channel, but it didn't > really sink in very much. > > If anyone has any ideas, please feel free to send me a note, I'll be > working on this privately, and post my findings and ideas, back to the > list. The way I have installed xen is noted in my blog if you would like > to reference it.
It's little consolation, but we have a Google Summer of Code project (starting towards the end of this month) that will offer some very nice provisioning and maintaince of Xen and qemu/KVM Puppet types (using libvirt). You do not have long to wait :) No xm create or virtinst commands will be required. In the meantime, if you're running Fedora, CentOS, or RHEL, you may want to take a look at the "koan" tool that comes with Cobbler, which is a pretty good start to that kind of integration for creating VMs. I am, however, a little biased :) Even if you aren't using Puppet, I would highly recommend looking at using Xen through libvirt tooling (virsh, virtinst, etc) rather than /sbin/xm, then your investment in software to manage your virtualization does not need to be repaid if you decide to switch hypervisors. --Michael -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
