[BlueOnyx:16913] Re: BX 5108R and XenServer 6.2.0

[Michael Stauber]

Hi Mike,

> Additionally, XS's VMs default drive is xvda whereas kickstart is looking
> for sda/hda, etc.
> 
> Is there a way to modify kickstart to work with XenServer and to have XS
> read/verify CDROM mount accordingly?  i.e. what to look for and change.
> 5108R works on VMware vSphere but XS is getting added into our environment.

Yeah, that's then a bit of a problem. Also, please skip 5108R and go
straight to 5208R instead, which is easier to install, too.

Here is something else you can do if the BlueOnyx ISO's don't work for
you: Grab a CentOS 6 ISO and install a minimal install of CentOS6.
Either 32-bit or preferably 64-bit.

Turn off SELinux and enable disk Quota for /home. That is: If /home is a
separate partition. If it is not, enable disk quota for / instead.

How this is done is explained here:
http://www.blueonyx.it/index.php?page=tar-ball-installer

But skip the rest of the Guide, as the Tarball-Installer isn't needed
for 520XR. The install is clean enough now to do it via YUM.

Once SELinux is off and quota is enabled, reboot for good measure.

Then install the RPM for the 520XR YUM repository:

rpm -hUv
http://devel.blueonyx.it/pub/BlueOnyx/5200R/el6/blueonyx/i386/RPMS/blueonyx-yumconf-2.1.0-1.noarch.rpm

This RPM will work on 32-bit and 64-bit and will then point you to the
5207R/5208R repositories (based on your architecture).

Then do a "yum groupinstall blueonyx", which will install either 5207R
(on 32-bit) or 5208R (on 64-bit).

After the install reboot again. You should then be able to login to the
GUI on port 444 to finish the initial setup.

During the install the "admin" account got created and has been set to
the password "blueonyx". The install also turned off Root-Login in
sshd_config in case you wonder why you won't be able to remote into the
box again as "root".

-- 
With best regards

Michael Stauber