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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance
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On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 18:18, Albert Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org> wrot=
e:
>
> 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. =C2=A0However Pandu was asking abou=
t
> building ".xva" which I know nothing about, unless an .xva is similar
> to/same as a stage4 (I have no idea)?
Um, an ".xva" is more like a qcow2 file.
With Citrix' XenCenter, all I have to do is "import" the xva, and
XenServer automagically creates a VM with a specified RAM, specified
storage, specified cores, etc.
Of course these settings (RAM, storage, cores) can be modified
post-import, but usually xva-makers already set the settings to the
recommended minimum. So, it saves the xva users from planning stage
:-)
Plus, xva-packaged appliances are usually already configured to run in
PV-mode, thus giving the highest performance over XenServer.
Rgds,
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