Hi steve,
The comment on /tmp/guestmagic was really good.
I was wondering what if we use /tmp/$$
> commands.getoutput('xm list > /tmp/$$')
Is it create the same problem as /tmp/guestmagic?
Thanks in advance
Gaurav
----- Original Message -----
From: Steve Kemp <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thursday, April 12, 2007 1:52 pm
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Instant Xen guest (guest-magic tool)
To: Gaurav Maheshbhai Patel <gmpatel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 12:17:47PM -0400, Gaurav Maheshbhai Patel
> wrote:
> > Well good to hear that you are working on same kind of project.
> > I was wondering about your suggestion. If we make a copy/snapshot
> of it. Then Installing fresh copy of Some linux distro....
> > 1) How can we do that?
>
> Depends on the type of distribution you've got. For Debian dom0 you
> can use tools like debootstrap to automatically install fresh copies
> of Debian inside a directory/partition. Similarly you could use a
> tool like rpmstrap to install copies of CentOS. (Though rpmstrap
> is very
> fragile and prone to breakage).
>
> > 2) If we do that then, doesn't it take the same time to
> installing new distro on guest?
>
> I don't fully understand what you're asking there. If you're using
> a tool like rpmstrap, or debootstrap, then it'd take a few minutes to
> install (or more depending on your network link).
>
> If you had several Linux distribution images locally you could do
> a copy in a few seconds.
>
> (That's what we do at work - we have a collection of configured
> Linux distributions mounted read-only, and we simply copy those
> into new
> guests automatically. The process of installing Gentoo, Debian,
> Ubuntu, or CentOS takes only a few minutes - but it does rely upon
> you creating the "source" installations manually first. There are
> a small collection of fixups applied after the copy to setup unique
> IPs, hostnames, etc, but otherwise the new copies are basically
> clones of the centralized master copy of each distribution.)
>
> > Also have you looked at the snap shot of guest-magic on
> sourceforge.net?
>
> Yes ..
>
> > Well IP assignment is still issue there because of short deadline
> of the project. But we are still going to do that.
>
> > Also, can you please tell me about what are you working on?
> > Might be it helps us some what
>
> xen-tools :
>
> http://xen-tools.org/software/xen-tools/
>
> Developed and used primarily upon Debian GNU/Linux, but apparently
> portable to things like CentOS and Fedora Core.
>
> Steve
> --
>
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