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["Jeremy Blosser (emrys)" <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org>]

On Sep 20, Eric Sandall [eric AT sandall.us] wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Jeremy Blosser (emrys) wrote:
> <snip>
> > I'm working on figuring out how to best use xen for this, at which point
> > I'll be glad to provide a HOWTO.  I also recently came into some donated
> > hardware and will be looking at both redistributing it and using some
> > local machines to provide resources to SMGL developers.  Ideally I'll get 
> > a
> > cluster of some sort set up that can provide sshd+xen for testing ISOs and
> > any other random stuff, but I'm just at the tinkering stage now.
> 
> If that does get setup that'll be a great boon to many (especially
> those on metered access). Thanks!

So far I did manage to get SMGL to install directly in a xen VM, something
that isn't all that straightfoward to figure out due to the way xen works.
:-)  The kernel the vm boots from actually lives on the host system, so
from one perspective it's more like UML or even a chroot than something
like vmware (there is no bios emulation/etc.).  But now that I have it, the
instructions are pretty easy.  Now I'm working on cleaning up some weird
edge stuff and getting base images working and probably improving our xen
spell(s) some.  When I have that I'll work on the HOWTO and then a cluster.
I think I have the hardware for that now, except maybe getting some more
big disks and RAM.

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