Installation guide

PXE installation of XenServer Host

All nodes should be within a root node named installation.

The following is a summary of the elements. All values should be PCDATA within the nodes,

unless otherwise stated. Required elements are indicated.

Element Description Required?

<primary-disk> The name of the storage device where the Dom0

should be installed, equivalent to the choice made

on the Select Primary Disk step of the interactive

installation process.

Attributes:

You can specify a gueststorage attribute with

possible values yes and no. For example:

<primary-disk gueststorage="no">sda</primary-disk>

If this attribute is not specified, the default is yes.

If you specify no, it is possible to automate an

installation scenario where no storage repository

is created, if, in addition, no guest-disk keys are

specified.

<guest-disk> The name of a storage device to be used for storing

guests. You should use one of these elements for

each extra disk.

<keymap> The name of the keymap to use during installation.

<root-password> The desired root password for the XenServer Host. Y

<source> Where the packages should be installed from.

Attributes:

type: url, nfs, or local

If local, leave the PCDATA empty. For example,

http://server/packages

</source>

server:packages

</source>

<post-install-script> Where the post-install-script is. Y