Changes between Version 11 and Version 12 of Doc/OS/Xen

Timestamp:

Nov 28, 2008, 4:48:25 PM (15 years ago)

Author:

/C=IE/O=Grid-Ireland/OU=cs.tcd.ie/L=RA-TCD/CN=Stephen O. Childs

Comment:

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Doc/OS/Xen

@@ -17 +17 @@
 || sl450-x86_64   ||    3.0.3       || sl450-x86_64            || Xen guest disk is now xvda not sda (see [https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LinuxSupport/UpdatingFromSLC44toSLC45 here]) ||
 
-Example templates are available at {{{cfg/clusters/example-xen}}}.
+Example templates are available at source:templates/trunk/clusters/example-xen
 
 = Templates =
@@ -42 +42 @@
  * The disk size defined in the hardware template will be use to create backing storage for the VM filesystem.
  * Make sure the OS defined for your VM is correct. Check the Quattor template {{{os_version_db.tpl}}} and edit it if necessary to ensure that your host has the correct OS selected.
- * Define the variable XEN_GUESTS to be a list of the guests you want to install on the host, using the names of their templates. (N.B. there is currently a restriction that the host and guest templates must be in the same cluster.) For example:
+ * The assignment of guests to host is most easily done by creating a "database" in the variable XEN_DB. If you do this, it has the advantage that the {{{hardware/location}}} field on the guest can be set to the name of the host. See source:sites/example/site/xen/db.tpl for an example.
+ * Alternatively, you can define the variable XEN_GUESTS on the host to be a list of the guests you want to install on the host, using the names of their templates. (N.B. there is currently a restriction that the host and guest templates must be in the same cluster.) For example:
 {{{
 variable XEN_GUESTS = list("testui.example.org","testwn.example.org");