On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 12:41:06PM +0200, 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? > A bit old but: http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/Fedora13Xen4Tutorial The stuff about installing VMs still applies to current Fedora versions.

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?

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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..

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