Re: Maintaining Xen with FAI - Questions

2006-11-30 Thread Henning Sprang
On 11/30/06, Mario Bischof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have some basic questions about using xen with custom configuration. Please only FAI related questions (this one still is halfway O.K.) should you use a custom hypervisor as well? or could you use the one from debian? I didn't try

Re: Maintaining Xen with FAI - Questions

2006-11-30 Thread Mario Bischof
On Nov 30, 2006, at 2:08 PM, Henning Sprang wrote: On 11/29/06, Michael Tautschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > already NFS support built into my domU-kernel. But what else do i > need to be ready to use fai with xen? > Network, disk, NFS should be about it... and IP PNP, in case the i

Re: Maintaining Xen with FAI - Questions

2006-11-30 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Thursday 30 November 2006 15:03, you wrote: > > Are those issues filed as bugs in the Debian BTS? > No, not yet, I have it on my todo list but was too lazy yet and anyway > use my own kernels - but ye, it's quite important to us ("FAI people") > - it would be actually needed for people get

Re: Maintaining Xen with FAI - Questions

2006-11-30 Thread Henning Sprang
On 11/30/06, Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] Are those issues filed as bugs in the Debian BTS? No, not yet, I have it on my todo list but was too lazy yet and anyway use my own kernels - but ye, it's quite important to us ("FAI people") - it would be actually needed for people ge

Re: Maintaining Xen with FAI - Questions

2006-11-30 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Thursday 30 November 2006 14:08, Henning Sprang wrote: > > Network, disk, NFS should be about it... > and IP PNP, in case the installserver address and ip should come via > dhcp as usually with FAI. > Debian Xen kernels lack all these AFAIK. Are those issues filed as bugs in the Debian BTS

Re: Maintaining Xen with FAI - Questions

2006-11-30 Thread Henning Sprang
On 11/30/06, Mario Bischof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] I always thought using custom xen kernels is better for security? Security is a process, not using a product - this also goes for choice of kernels or configurations. Custom kernels can only be more secure if you take care of it a lot

Re: Maintaining Xen with FAI - Questions

2006-11-30 Thread Henning Sprang
On 11/29/06, Michael Tautschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > already NFS support built into my domU-kernel. But what else do i > need to be ready to use fai with xen? > Network, disk, NFS should be about it... and IP PNP, in case the installserver address and ip should come via dhcp as us

Re: Maintaining Xen with FAI - Questions

2006-11-29 Thread Michael Tautschnig
[...] > > I always thought using custom xen kernels is better for security? So > you can do a bit kernel-hardening and just put the things in Dom0 and > DomU you want and not just everything that seems to be used by the > common debian user (?) . Well, does the standard xen-kernel from >

Re: Maintaining Xen with FAI - Questions

2006-11-29 Thread Mario Bischof
Hello, I've got several Questions about using FAI to install a Xen virtual Domain. - First of all, what did you use to make custom kernels? I tried to use make-kpkg for generating xen dom0 and domU kernels, for the dom0 kernel it works fine, I am using the xen hypervisor provided by the debia

Re: Maintaining Xen with FAI - Questions

2006-11-29 Thread Michael Tautschnig
> Hello, > > I've got several Questions about using FAI to install a Xen virtual > Domain. > > - First of all, what did you use to make custom kernels? I tried to > use make-kpkg for generating xen dom0 and domU kernels, for the dom0 > kernel it works fine, I am using the xen hypervisor pro

Maintaining Xen with FAI - Questions

2006-11-29 Thread Mario Bischof
Hello, I've got several Questions about using FAI to install a Xen virtual Domain. - First of all, what did you use to make custom kernels? I tried to use make-kpkg for generating xen dom0 and domU kernels, for the dom0 kernel it works fine, I am using the xen hypervisor provided by the