From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QZiOQ-0000Ag-HM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 11:48:21 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0CD901C0C2; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 11:45:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpq4.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq4.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.42.167]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B44451C0C2 for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 11:45:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.42.150] (helo=smtp18.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq4.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QZiLa-0000vr-0M for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:45:22 +0200 Received: from 5353c717.cm-6-4d.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([83.83.199.23] helo=data.antarean.org) by smtp18.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QZiLS-0003fC-JO for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:45:14 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EE83272A for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:45:21 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at antarean.org Received: from data.antarean.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (data.antarean.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id kWWK-oYIT-pm for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:45:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: from eve.localnet (eve.lan.antarean.org [10.20.13.50]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9BAB4D7D for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:45:20 +0200 (CEST) From: Joost Roeleveld To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:45:12 +0200 Message-ID: <10149738.9Fez4OoRTa@eve> User-Agent: KMail/4.6 beta5 (Linux/2.6.36-gentoo-r5; KDE/4.6.3; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <1308827918.71397.15.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <48478426.vrnISNt4Jx@eve> <1308827918.71397.15.camel@localhost.localdomain> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-ID: 1QZiLS-0003fC-JO X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-SpamCheck: geen spam, SpamAssassin (niet cached, score=-0.928, vereist 5, BAYES_00 -1.90, RDNS_DYNAMIC 0.98, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD -0.01) X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-From: joost@antarean.org X-Spam-Status: No X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 60b66eadb3071f0bf002ce79dc7cb000 On Thursday 23 June 2011 07:18:38 Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Thursday, June 23 at 09:54 (+0200), Joost Roeleveld said: > > > Any such program to build XenServer appliances (.xva) ? > > > > Shouldn't it work similarly? > > Eg. start an appliance and install using the stage4? > > > > I use Xen directly and as long as I can create and fill the partitions > > for the > > VM, any "creation" tool should work. > > Yes the stage4 should work similarly. However Pandu was asking about > building ".xva" which I know nothing about, unless an .xva is similar > to/same as a stage4 (I have no idea)? .xva is a format specifically for Citrix Xen. There are tools to convert "classic" Xen VMs to "xva" files: http://www.xen.org/files/xva/README I would be willing to assist in getting this tool to work with your program. All I'd need is a copy of your program along with assistance from Pandu Poluan to test the resulting XVA files. I do not run Citrix XenServer and have no need for it as Xen itself works fine for me. -- Joost