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CloudStack FreeBSD XenServer

FreeBSD 10 On CloudStack + XenServer

Post author By Shanker Balan
Post date November 5, 2013
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Update (20140122): FreeBSD 10 is out. Also see Improved Xen Support In FreeBSD blog post on xenproject.org
Update (20140101): FreeBSD 10 RC1, RC2 and RC3 installs on XenServer/CloudStack without issues for both i386 and amd64 ISOs

FreeBSD-CURRENT has a ton of Hardware Assisted Virtualisation (HVM) fixes and enhancements to support the Xen Hypervisor. The 2 major issues that prevented CloudStack users from creating FreeBSD HVM templates on Xen have been addressed with the following commits…

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Shanker Balan

Shanker Balan is a devops and infrastructure freelancer with over 14 years of industry experience in large scale Internet systems. He is available for both short term and long term projects on contract. Please use the Contact Form for any enquiry.

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CloudStack FreeBSD OS

CloudStack Guest Scripts

Sometime back, I made modifications to the original generic CloudStack cloud-set-guest-password and cloud-set-guest-sshkey to make them work on other Linux distros and FreeBSD.

You can find them on Github.

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DHCP Hostname Updates for CloudStack Templates

Post author By Shanker Balan
Post date August 19, 2013
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The Working with Templates section from the CloudStack Administrators Guide describes in broad strokes how to create OS templates. In addition to the steps mentioned there, you might need an extra step to update the hostname settings during DHCP depending on the Linux distribution.

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Shanker Balan

Shanker Balan is a devops and infrastructure freelancer with over 14 years of industry experience in large scale Internet systems. He is available for both short term and long term projects on contract. Please use the Contact Form for any enquiry.

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