[one-users] ONE templates for Windows on XEN

[Tino Vazquez]

Hi Nikola,

You need full virtualization for windows, so the OS section is not
relevant and can be skipped.

Regards,

-Tino

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On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Nikola Milutinovic
<n.milutinovic at levi9.com> wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I have been searching the net but cannot find the answer to my problem.
>
> We have 2 VMWare images, one of Linux Ubuntu 9.0.4 and the other Windows XP
> and we are launching them from OpenNebula 1.4
>
> We are planning to replace VMWare Server with Xen. I have found how to
> convert VMWare image to Xen image. What puzzles me is how the OpenNebula
> template should look like. Most notably, what should "OS" section contain.
>
> Samples for Linux I have found on the net are not really helpful. I have
> found that for Ubuntu Linux I should have something like:
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OpenNebula:
>
> OS     = [
>        kernel   = "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-4-xen-amd64",
>        initrd   = "/boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-4-xen-amd64",
>        root     = "sda1" ]
>
> Now, several things puzzle me.
>
> 1. are these paths paths to the kernel and initrd on the guest (DomU) or the
> host machine (Dom0)?
> 2. what should be the parameters for Windows XP, then?
> 3. all examples on Xen web site mention a "kernel" parameter in the VM
> config file, but it is pointing to "/usr/lib/xen/hvmloader"
>
> At some point it seamed to me that the sample is referring to a
> para-virtualized Xen image (notice "xen" in kernel name).
>
> Can someone help?
>
> Nix.
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> Met vriendelijke groet / Kind regards,
> Nikola Milutinovic
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