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[Balaji Venkataraman <xbalaji@xxxxxxxxx>]

Rafi:

Thanks for the link, I looked at it earlier, from what I understand the wiki
page assumes
a Type 2 Hypervisor. My idea is to make Citrix Xenserver  (Type 1
Hypervisor) as a
nova-node. I spent sometime on this but was going no  where. Installed gcc,
g++, make
etc  to compile apt-get from source on Xenserver. Then ran into issues as
apt-get
expects some files which are missing in Xenserver.

Hope someone can shed some light, I see openstack claims support in
Xenserver but
is it on a standard Xenserver downloaded from Citrix or a custom built
Xenserver?

Thanks and Regards,
Balaji


On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Rafi Khardalian <rafi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The only document covering the subject is here:
>
> http://wiki.openstack.org/XenServerDevelopment
>
> Support for Xenserver seems more like a work-in-progress than anything I
> would consider using in a production environment.  XAPI plugins need to be
> installed on each hypervisor's dom0 with an associated nova-compute instance
> also running as a domU (one per pool is not sufficient, AFAIK).  After
> battling with it for almost a week, I gave up and decided to go with KVM.
>  Thus far I've been rather pleased with the combination.
>
> If anyone has more information about this, I'd be happy to be wrong.
>
> Rafi
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Balaji Venkataraman <xbalaji@xxxxxxxxx>
>  wrote:
>
>
>> We are trying to configure citrix xenserver as nova-node, but we are not
>> able to install the nova tools, is this supported? If so, can someone share
>> the details or point to the wiki page.
>>
>>
>> Thanks and Regards,
>> Balaji
>
>