Monday, 12 August 2013

PXE Installation of XenServer 6.2

PXE Installation of XenServer 6.2

I've added XenServer 6.2 to our PXE/TFTP server. Everything went fine, but
I cannot install XenServer as is. We get the XCP version instead of
XenServer 6.2. Is this supposed to be normal?
Here are my configuration files:
answerfile:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<installation>
<primary-disk>sda</primary-disk>
<keymap>us</keymap>
<admin-interface name="eth0" proto="dhcp" />
<source type="url">http://pxeserver.domain.com/repos/xenserver</source>
<timezone>America/Sao_Paulo</timezone>
</installation>
pxelinux.cfg/default:
label E
kernel mboot.c32
append xenserver/xen.gz watchdog com1=115200,8n1i console=com1,tty ---
xenserver/vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200n8
ramdisk_size=32758
answerfile=http://pxelinux.domain.com/repos/xenserver/answerfile ---
xenserver/install.img
Folder structure inside /srv/repos/xenserver:
/srv/repos/xenserver# ls
answerfile packages.main packages.transfer-vm packages.xenserver
The folder packages.xenserver appears to be ignored, since only the
packages.main are installed. I've tried putting the following line in the
answerfile, but it failed:
<source
type="url">http://pxeserver.domain.com/repos/xenserver/packages.xenserver</source>
Any help is appreciated.

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