Xen Orchestra on Ubuntu 15.10 - Complete installation instructions
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@johnhooks Thanks for that little tip.
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Works great, thanks for the time contributed throwing the script together. Much appreciated
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FWIW, had to install nfs-common before I could properly mount an NFS share.
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Yes, sorry I had to as well.
that's what you get with minimal.
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Would be good if the install script is updated to auto-install this package.
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@Danp said:
Would be good if the install script is updated to auto-install this package.
But you may not want to use NFS on your XO server. . . .
Maybe you use it just to manage the VM's but no do backups.... so um, no.
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@DustinB3403 said:
But you may not want to use NFS on your XO server. . . .
Maybe you use it just to manage the VM's but no do backups.... so um, no.
True. However, this creates a situation where the software claims to support NFS remote shares, but it doesn't work properly without this package.
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@Danp said:
@DustinB3403 said:
But you may not want to use NFS on your XO server. . . .
Maybe you use it just to manage the VM's but no do backups.... so um, no.
True. However, this creates a situation where the software claims to support NFS remote shares, but it doesn't work properly without this package.
NFS shares are likely to be faded out in favor of SMB Lib's that only get used at the time of backup or restore.
Ubuntu Minimal is the installation media chosen, I would also assume Ubuntu Full DVD would work as well, but it would be bloated in comparison. If a note isn't sufficient I don't see how forcibly installing NFS-Common is going to fix the issue in the first place.
Forcing NFS-Common onto your system would somehow defeat the purpose of using the minimal installation media
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Yes it could be compiled into the script, even as an optional installation item at the end. But why, because then it's bloating the script.
A comment on the script is enough to tell someone who's reading it what they should need.
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@DustinB3403 said:
@Danp said:
@DustinB3403 said:
But you may not want to use NFS on your XO server. . . .
Maybe you use it just to manage the VM's but no do backups.... so um, no.
True. However, this creates a situation where the software claims to support NFS remote shares, but it doesn't work properly without this package.
NFS shares are likely to be faded out in favor of SMB Lib's that only get used at the time of backup or restore.
Ubuntu Minimal is the installation media chosen, I would also assume Ubuntu Full DVD would work as well, but it would be bloated in comparison. If a note isn't sufficient I don't see how forcibly installing NFS-Common is going to fix the issue in the first place.
Forcing NFS-Common onto your system would somehow defeat the purpose of using the minimal installation media
Except the point of a script is to run it, not to read it. if people wanted to read it, they wouldn't run a script to do the work.
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@DustinB3403 said:
Forcing NFS-Common onto your system would somehow defeat the purpose of using the minimal installation media
How in the hell did you reach that conclusion? Installing a single extra package comes no where close to "defeating the purpose" of a minimal install.
On the other hand by adding a commonly used file sharing system you negate problems with people attempting to actually follow the instructions and get something working.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@DustinB3403 said:
@Danp said:
@DustinB3403 said:
But you may not want to use NFS on your XO server. . . .
Maybe you use it just to manage the VM's but no do backups.... so um, no.
True. However, this creates a situation where the software claims to support NFS remote shares, but it doesn't work properly without this package.
NFS shares are likely to be faded out in favor of SMB Lib's that only get used at the time of backup or restore.
Ubuntu Minimal is the installation media chosen, I would also assume Ubuntu Full DVD would work as well, but it would be bloated in comparison. If a note isn't sufficient I don't see how forcibly installing NFS-Common is going to fix the issue in the first place.
Forcing NFS-Common onto your system would somehow defeat the purpose of using the minimal installation media
Except the point of a script is to run it, not to read it. if people wanted to read it, they wouldn't run a script to do the work.
Well they don't have to read the script, but the how-to would be wise...
@JaredBusch said:
@DustinB3403 said:
Forcing NFS-Common onto your system would somehow defeat the purpose of using the minimal installation media
How in the hell did you reach that conclusion? Installing a single extra package comes no where close to "defeating the purpose" of a minimal install.
On the other hand by adding a commonly used file sharing system you negate problems with people attempting to actually follow the instructions and get something working.
Again, it's why Read-Me's exist.... so that the "user" knows what the hell is going on. the read me is literally a few lines.
But I digress.
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Script updated to perform NFS-Common installation at the start, and then everything else afterwards.
Read-Me updated.
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@DustinB3403 Thanks!
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Anyone already tackle the issue of how to start XO automatically when the VM is booted? If so, what was your solution?
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@Danp said:
Anyone already tackle the issue of how to start XO automatically when the VM is booted? If so, what was your solution?
I haven't looked into this yet, but you could run a crontab job at boot that does this for you.
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@DustinB3403 said:
@Danp said:
Anyone already tackle the issue of how to start XO automatically when the VM is booted? If so, what was your solution?
I haven't looked into this yet, but you could run a crontab job at boot that does this for you.
I always forget that cron can take care of that, rather than writing your own init or systemd script. Probably the best way to handle it quickly and easily.
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Good old cron....
Always being forgotten about
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At the moment I'm build a test XO update script..
Wish me luck.
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So I've made a super simple script file that will update your XO installation.
I recommend that you shutdown the XO services while this runs.
sudo mkdir /opt/xo-update cd /opt/xo-update wget https://gist.githubusercontent.com/Jarli01/4d32d4f1b8c5786c9299/raw/c1af91129bdbd4775653932aa957c2ea48889fe7/xo-update.sh chmod +x xo-update.shTo run it
from /opt/xo-update
sudo ./xo-update.sh
