bougie / xenl-tools

xenl-tools contains a collection of python scripts for working with Xen guest images under Debian

xenl-tools

About

xenl-tools contains a collection of python scripts for working with Xen guest images under Debian.

xenl-tools currently has scripts to install releases of debian.

Debian

• Wheezy 7
• Jessie 8

Requirements

To use these tools you'll need the following software:

• debootstrap
• Python 3

Installation

As root or with sudo, clone the repository and copy xen-tools.conf.sample to /etc/xenl-tools/xen-tools.conf. If you want roles support, you need to copy roles.d directory into /etc/xenl-tools.

Then you have to symlinks all scripts listed in /etc/xenl-tools/roles.d/common.d/* to /etc/xenl-tools/roles.d/wheezy.d and /etc/xenl-tools/roles.d/jessie.d directtory.
For example for jessie:

# for f in `find /etc/xenl-tools/role.d/common.d/`; do ln -s $f /etc/xenl-tools/role.d/jessie.d/; done

The Scripts

Here is a brief description of each included script

xl-create-image

This script is designed to create new images which may be used with the Xen hypervisor.

xl-debootstrap2tar

This script is designed to create a tarball from a debootstrap which may be used by xt-create-image. After, the tarball can be manually personalized to include for exemple a new embded software. Also, using a tarball do the install process very faster