XenServer/DDK

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DDK

Installation

  1. Download Extract the xvda from the DDK ISO (ddk.iso)
  2. Import the XVA (ova.xml) into XenServer
  3. The VM should auto start after import (takes a while to import)
  4. View the console and set the root password.

Installation as ESX VM

yes, I know, blasphemer and all that...

Still looking for a good way to convert it to OVF...

My ugly ugly solution:

  1. deploy XVA to Citrix and power on
  2. create larger (10G+) ESX VMDK attached to running CentOS 5.9 VM
  3. dd/netcat to ESX VM's secondary hdd
    • xen vm:
      dd if=/dev/xvda1 | nc [OTHERSERVER] 8000
    • esx vm
      nc -l 8000 | dd of=/dev/sda
  4. fdisk, delete partition, recreate as full disk size, mark as bootable
  5. expand file system
    resize2fs /dev/sda1
  6. mount file system
    mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
  7. reinstall grub on secondary drive
    grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda
  8. fix /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/grub.conf and change /dev/xvda1 to /dev/sda1
  9. chroot to the file system and rebuild initrd
    chroot /mnt
    /sbin/mkinitrd /boot/hack.img 3.10.0+0
  10. finally point grub to the new initrd /boot/hack.img
  11. boot and profit... phew...

Version

DDK Based off of RedHat EL5.

XenServer DDK 6.2.0-70446c
Linux xenserver-ddk 2.6.32.43-0.4.1.xs1.8.0.835.170778xen #1 SMP Wed May 29 18:06:30 EDT 2013 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Second HDD

Perform an online resize:

  1. With the DDK VM powered off, go to storage and edit the virtual disk
  2. Increase the size (Ex. 20G)
  3. Power on the VM
  4. fdisk /dev/xvda
    • p d 1 n p 1 [enter] [enter] w
  5. resize2fs /dev/xvda1
  6. profit!

-- alternative method --

The DDK VM has minimal space free. Let's add a second for development room.

Add second virtual disk for data:

fdisk /dev/xvdc
# partition: n p 1 [enter] [enter] w
mkfs.ext3 -L /data /dev/xvdc1
mkdir -p /data
echo "/dev/xvdc1      /data           ext3    defaults,noatime 0 0" >> /etc/fstab
mount /data
mkdir /data/src
ln -s /data/src /root/.src

Note: You will end up with this error in yum if you don't add a second data disk:

Insufficient space in download directory

Yum Configuration

Disable broken Citrix repo:

sed -i "s/enabled=1/enabled=0/" /etc/yum.repos.d/Citrix.repo

This fixes this error:

# yum list
...
Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://updates.vmd.citrix.com/XenServer/6.4.93/domain0/mirrorlist error was
[Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: citrix

Exclude kernel from updates: (already built into /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo, with "exclude=kernel-xen*, *xen*")

#echo "exclude=kernel-xen*, *xen*" >> /etc/yum.conf
echo "exclude=kernel*" >> /etc/yum.conf

Install Tools

Install vim:

yum --enablerepo base  install vim-enhanced

HG Dependencies:

yum --enablerepo base  install zlib-devel bzip2-devel

Install Python

##
## PYTHON
##

mkdir -p ~/.src ; cd ~/.src
wget --no-check-certificate http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.6/Python-2.7.6.tgz
tar -zvxf Python-2.7.6.tgz
cd Python-2.7.6
./configure --prefix=/opt/python-2.7.6 && make && make install && echo "SUCCESS"

export PATH=/opt/python-2.7.6/bin:$PATH
echo -e "\n\nexport PATH=/opt/python-2.7.6/bin:\$PATH\n" >> ~/.bash_profile

Install Mercurial

##
## MERCURIAL
##

MVER=3.0
mkdir -p ~/.src ; cd ~/.src
wget --no-check-certificate http://mercurial.selenic.com/release/mercurial-$MVER.tar.gz
tar -zvxf mercurial-$MVER.tar.gz
cd mercurial-$MVER
python setup.py install

Setup mercurial config

cat > ~/.hgrc << "EOF"
[ui]
username = My User
editor = vim
#ssh = ssh -l [USER]

[extensions]
color =
purge =
transplant =
rebase =
mq =
graphlog =
pager =

[pager]
pager = LESS='FRX' less
EOF

Install Scons

See scons

SVER=2.3.1
mkdir -p ~/.src ; cd ~/.src
#wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/scons/files/scons/$SVER/scons-$SVER.tar.gz/download
wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/scons/files/scons/$SVER/scons-$SVER.tar.gz/download -O scons-$SVER.tar.gz
tar -zvxf scons-$SVER.tar.gz
cd scons-$SVER
python setup.py install