Massive Deployment of Xen enabled Virtual Cluster with Diskless Remote Boot Linux

Test Environment

• VMWare Server 1.0.3
• VMWare Image debian 4.0r1 as DRBL Server
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• VMWare Image without disk as DRBL Client
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Pre-installation

• First, install Xen Hypervisor and Xen enabled Linux Kernel and then reboot

  root@drbl-xen-srv:~# uname -a
  Linux drbl-xen-srv 2.6.18-6-686 #1 SMP Sat May 24 10:24:42 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
  root@drbl-xen-srv:~# apt-get install xen-hypervisor-3.0.3-1-i386-pae linux-image-2.6.18-6-xen-vserver-686 xen-tools libc6-xen
  root@drbl-xen-srv:~# update-grub
  root@drbl-xen-srv:~# reboot
  

  • Note: If you did not install libc6-xen, you might have "4gb seg fixup" error message keep showing up while booting.
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• Choose Xen to boot at GRUB menu
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• Install DRBL
  • Download GPG-KEY-DRBL and add GPG key via apt-key

    root@drbl-xen-srv:~# wget http://drbl.nchc.org.tw/GPG-KEY-DRBL
    root@drbl-xen-srv:~# apt-key add GPG-KEY-DRBL
    

  • add DRBL repository URL

    root@drbl-xen-srv:~# echo "deb http://free.nchc.org.tw/drbl-core drbl stable" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/drbl-sources.list