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<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Second HDD</span></span></p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>== DDK ==<br />
<br />
== Installation ==<br />
<br />
# Download Extract the xvda from the DDK ISO (ddk.iso)<br />
# Import the XVA (ova.xml) into XenServer<br />
# The VM should auto start after import (takes a while to import)<br />
# View the console and set the root password.<br />
<br />
== Installation as ESX VM ==<br />
<br />
''yes, I know, blasphemer and all that...''<br />
<br />
Still looking for a good way to convert it to OVF...<br />
* Maybe: XenCenter Linux VM -> vCenter Converter -> ESXi Server [https://communities.vmware.com/thread/308128]<br />
* or http://didyourestart.blogspot.com/2013/03/convert-xenserver-xva-to-vmdk-for.html<br />
* or http://www.mytechrants.com/converting-citrix-xva-file-to-microsoft-hyper-v-vhd/<br />
<br />
My ugly ugly solution:<br />
# deploy XVA to Citrix and power on<br />
# create larger (10G+) ESX VMDK attached to running CentOS 5.9 VM<br />
# dd/netcat to ESX VM's secondary hdd<br />
#* xen vm: <pre>dd if=/dev/xvda1 | nc [OTHERSERVER] 8000</pre><br />
#* esx vm <pre>nc -l 8000 | dd of=/dev/sda</pre><br />
# fdisk, delete partition, recreate as full disk size, mark as bootable<br />
# expand file system <pre>resize2fs /dev/sda1</pre><br />
# mount file system <pre>mount /dev/sda1 /mnt</pre><br />
# reinstall grub on secondary drive <pre>grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda</pre><br />
# fix /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/grub.conf and change /dev/xvda1 to /dev/sda1<br />
# chroot to the file system and rebuild initrd <pre>chroot /mnt</pre> <pre>/sbin/mkinitrd /boot/hack.img 3.10.0+0</pre><br />
# finally point grub to the new initrd /boot/hack.img<br />
# boot and profit... phew...<br />
<br />
== Version ==<br />
<br />
DDK Based off of RedHat EL5.<br />
XenServer DDK 6.2.0-70446c<br />
Linux xenserver-ddk 2.6.32.43-0.4.1.xs1.8.0.835.170778xen #1 SMP Wed May 29 18:06:30 EDT 2013 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux<br />
<br />
== Second HDD ==<br />
<br />
Perform an online resize:<br />
# With the DDK VM powered off, go to storage and edit the virtual disk<br />
# Increase the size (Ex. 20G)<br />
# Power on the VM<br />
# fdisk /dev/xvda<br />
#* p d 1 n p 1 [enter] [enter] w<br />
# resize2fs /dev/xvda1<br />
# profit!<br />
<br />
-- alternative method --<br />
<br />
The DDK VM has minimal space free. Let's add a second for development room.<br />
<br />
Add second virtual disk for data:<br />
fdisk /dev/xvdc<br />
# partition: n p 1 [enter] [enter] w<br />
mkfs.ext3 -L /data /dev/xvdc1<br />
mkdir -p /data<br />
echo "/dev/xvdc1 /data ext3 defaults,noatime 0 0" >> /etc/fstab<br />
mount /data<br />
<br />
mkdir /data/src<br />
ln -s /data/src /root/.src<br />
<br />
Note: You will end up with this error in yum if you don't add a second data disk:<br />
Insufficient space in download directory<br />
<br />
== Yum Configuration ==<br />
<br />
Disable broken Citrix repo:<br />
sed -i "s/enabled=1/enabled=0/" /etc/yum.repos.d/Citrix.repo<br />
<br />
This fixes this error:<br />
# yum list<br />
...<br />
Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://updates.vmd.citrix.com/XenServer/6.4.93/domain0/mirrorlist error was<br />
[Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found<br />
Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: citrix<br />
<br />
Exclude kernel from updates: (already built into /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo, with "exclude=kernel-xen*, *xen*")<br />
#echo "exclude=kernel-xen*, *xen*" >> /etc/yum.conf<br />
echo "exclude=kernel*" >> /etc/yum.conf<br />
<br />
== Install Tools ==<br />
<br />
Install vim:<br />
yum --enablerepo base install vim-enhanced<br />
<br />
HG Dependencies:<br />
yum --enablerepo base install zlib-devel bzip2-devel<br />
<br />
== Install Python ==<br />
<br />
<pre><br />
##<br />
## PYTHON<br />
##<br />
<br />
mkdir -p ~/.src ; cd ~/.src<br />
wget --no-check-certificate http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.6/Python-2.7.6.tgz<br />
tar -zvxf Python-2.7.6.tgz<br />
cd Python-2.7.6<br />
./configure --prefix=/opt/python-2.7.6 && make && make install && echo "SUCCESS"<br />
<br />
export PATH=/opt/python-2.7.6/bin:$PATH<br />
echo -e "\n\nexport PATH=/opt/python-2.7.6/bin:\$PATH\n" >> ~/.bash_profile<br />
</pre><br />
<br />
== Install Mercurial ==<br />
<br />
<pre><br />
##<br />
## MERCURIAL<br />
##<br />
<br />
MVER=3.0<br />
mkdir -p ~/.src ; cd ~/.src<br />
wget --no-check-certificate http://mercurial.selenic.com/release/mercurial-$MVER.tar.gz<br />
tar -zvxf mercurial-$MVER.tar.gz<br />
cd mercurial-$MVER<br />
python setup.py install<br />
</pre><br />
<br />
Setup mercurial config<br />
<pre><br />
cat > ~/.hgrc << "EOF"<br />
[ui]<br />
username = My User<br />
editor = vim<br />
#ssh = ssh -l [USER]<br />
<br />
[extensions]<br />
color =<br />
purge =<br />
transplant =<br />
rebase =<br />
mq =<br />
graphlog =<br />
pager =<br />
<br />
[pager]<br />
pager = LESS='FRX' less<br />
EOF<br />
</pre><br />
<br />
== Install Scons ==<br />
<br />
See [[scons]]<br />
<br />
<pre><br />
SVER=2.3.1<br />
mkdir -p ~/.src ; cd ~/.src<br />
#wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/scons/files/scons/$SVER/scons-$SVER.tar.gz/download<br />
wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/scons/files/scons/$SVER/scons-$SVER.tar.gz/download -O scons-$SVER.tar.gz<br />
tar -zvxf scons-$SVER.tar.gz<br />
cd scons-$SVER<br />
python setup.py install<br />
</pre></div>
Kenneth