COMPUTING: Virtualisation

[Kyuuketsuki]

Try /var/opt/xen/iso_import/

That was it thanks (at least it existed) ... it managed to load 1 iso but unfortunately the size limit appears to exist because when I tried to copy the server 2008 ISO across it failed with the server error "File system on Control Domain Full" which is crazy because it's an 80Gb drive. Also, doing that rescan (and even restarting the server) didn't make the one ISO that did copy over appear on the drop down list.

The following is what my primary disk looks like (had to use the --force flag to get in as the OS is still running ... my assumption is that so far I have tried to copy iso's to /dev/sda2 (the command domain?):

[root@ar-xen-host ~]# sfdisk /dev/sda --force
Checking that no-one is using this disk right now ...
BLKRRPART: Device or resource busy

This disk is currently in use - repartitioning is probably a bad idea.
Umount all file systems, and swapoff all swap partitions on this disk.
Use the --no-reread flag to suppress this check.

Disk /dev/sda: 9729 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Old situation:
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 0+ 498 499- 4008186 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 499 997 499 4008217+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 998 9728 8731 70131757+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
Input in the following format; absent fields get a default value.
<start> <size> <type [E,S,L,X,hex]> <bootable [-,*]> <c,h,s> <c,h,s>
Usually you only need to specify <start> and <size> (and perhaps <type>).

You see this broadly speaking makes no sense to me ... I installed Xen on an 80Gb drive, it can't be using more than say 1Gb in actual files (2Gb to be kind) and the above hints at that! /dev/sda3 appears to be around 70GB and I've no idea what Xen is using that for but there should be plenty of room there for an ISO store.

Sure I know I could put the ISO's on some kind of network share (although, in truth, I don't actually know how to do that yet) but why should I have to (that's why I chose to use amn 80Gb drive and Xen's direct competitor, ESXi, has no such issues in this respect)? What I want to do is:

• Create a folder on /dev/sda3
  
• Repoint the ISO repository pointer/flag/symbolic link at that folder
  
• Copy ISO's to it
  
• Rescan if necessary
  
• Have those ISO's become available to me for my virtual machines.

Is that so much to ask?

Maybe some of this makes sense to you or maybe you can give instructions to help me get the info so you can help me? Any ideas?

Sigh! All this just so I can have template machines!

Kyu