How to install XenServer 7 in GUI-less mode?
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I want to install XS7 in a server (Fujitsu) on which I just got the serial-over-lan access (no KVM in here, waste of money, I fully agree with that), but the XS7 installer automatically go into "GUI install" mode after the boot… no Grub or other bootloader menu are shown, and the start of the GUI automatically stop the data flow into the serial interface.
Is there a way to install XS7 in a completely GUI-less way? Thanks in advance!
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Never tried that, all of our servers have IPMI style interfaces so it's never come up to work with the installer in a GUI-less mode like that. I'm not sure if there is any accommodation for that approach.
If you can install to one machine, you should be able to clone the install to others. That helps with all but the first one. But the first one might need a GUI.
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I think what you need is an answer file approach.
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Thanks @scottalanmiller . That's ugly, I'm sure I can install CentOS and other distros without needing a KVM… I've done that several times in some of my KVM (hypervisor) machines.
I was thinking that because the XS installer is based on the CentOS one, it would also carry a GUI-less installation method.
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@Francesco-Provino said in How to install XenServer 7 in GUI-less mode?:
I was thinking that because the XS installer is based on the CentOS one, it would also carry a GUI-less installation method.
That would make sense, but it is heavily modified. It might do a text mode install, but I'm guessing not.
