On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 05:25:22PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 12:15:52PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > > Arindam Choudhury wrote: > > >Hi, > > > > > >I am trying to provision virtual machines to create a virtual > > >machine cluster. If I try to transfer a pre-build virtual machine, > > >its too time consuming and hard on network. So the idea of using > > >bootstrap or kickstart seems better. Can any body point a good > > >tutorial how to do this? > > > > > >Actually I have a master image and I have to copy it on all the > > >nodes and create virtual machines. Is there any other way to do > > >it? > > > > > Not having done such a thing with xen, I can only say that you can > > do it with kvm, starting with a base image and making multiple copy > > on write (COW) machines which pretty much create instantly and take > > only as much disk space as the changed data. I would hope the xen > > tools would support a similar approach, but I can't tell you how to > > do it. Roll out of a name machine is five minutes or so, start the > > new VM with a fresh MAC address so your DHCP server gives it a > > unique IP, set the name and services and go. > > > > I present this since you asked, not as a recommendation to do it the way I do... > > > > Yes there are many ways to do it. > You could use qemu qcow image files, or LVM snapshots, or whatever really.. > .. with Xen. -- Pasi > > > > >Regards, > > >Arindam > > > > > > > > >-- > > >xen mailing list > > >xen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > >https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen > > > > > > -- > > Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> > > We are not out of the woods yet, but we know the direction and have > > taken the first step. The steps are many, but finite in number, and if > > we persevere we will reach our destination. -me, 2010 > > > > > > -- > > xen mailing list > > xen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen > -- > xen mailing list > xen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen -- xen mailing list xen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen
