</screen>
</para>
</formalpara>
+ <para>
+ If you want to test the HVM support
+ with Ganeti and want VNC access to the console of your
+ instances, set the following two entries in
+ <filename>/etc/xen/xend-config.sxp</filename>:
+<screen>
+(vnc-listen '0.0.0.0')
+(vncpasswd '')
+</screen>
+ You need to restart the Xen daemon for these settings to
+ take effect:
+<screen>
+/etc/init.d/xend restart
+</screen>
+ </para>
</sect3>
<para>
Supported DRBD versions: the <literal>0.7</literal> series
<emphasis role="strong">or</emphasis>
- <literal>8.0.x</literal>. It's recommended to have at least
+ <literal>8.0.7</literal>. It's recommended to have at least
version <literal>0.7.24</literal> if you use
<command>udev</command> since older versions have a bug
related to device discovery which can be triggered in cases of
echo drbd minor_count=64 >> /etc/modules
modprobe drbd minor_count=64
</screen>
- <para>or for using DRBD <literal>8.x</literal> from the etch
- backports:</para>
+ <para>
+ or for using DRBD <literal>8.x</literal> from the etch
+ backports (note: you need at least 8.0.7, older version have
+ a bug that breaks ganeti's usage of drbd):
+ </para>
<screen>
apt-get install -t etch-backports drbd8-module-source drbd8-utils
m-a update
</para>
<screen>
-tar xvzf ganeti-1.2b3.tar.gz
-cd ganeti-1.2b3
+tar xvzf ganeti-@GANETI_VERSION@.tar.gz
+cd ganeti-@GANETI_VERSION@
./configure --localstatedir=/var --sysconfdir=/etc
make
make install
<screen>
cd /srv/ganeti/os
-tar xvf ganeti-instance-debian-etch-0.3.tar
-mv ganeti-instance-debian-etch-0.3 debian-etch
+tar xvf ganeti-instance-debian-etch-0.4.tar
+mv ganeti-instance-debian-etch-0.4 debian-etch
</screen>
<para>
</para>
<para>
+ To set up the cluster as an HVM cluster, use the
+ <option>--hypervisor=xen-hvm3.1</option> option to use
+ the Xen 3.1 HVM hypervisor. Note that with the
+ HVM support, you will only be able to create
+ HVM instances in a cluster set to this hypervisor type. Mixed
+ PVM/HVM clusters are not supported by the Ganeti 1.2
+ HVM support. You will also need to create the VNC
+ cluster password file
+ <filename>/etc/ganeti/vnc-cluster-password</filename>
+ which contains one line with the default VNC password for the
+ cluster.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
You can also invoke the command with the
<option>--help</option> option in order to see all the
possibilities.