Installation guide

PXE installation of XenServer Host

installation lives with the existing-installation element, and leave the primary-disk and guest-disk

elements unspecified. For example:

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<existing-installation>sda</existing-installation>

<root-password>mypassword</root-password>

<source type="url">http://pxehost.example.com</source>

<post-install-script type="url">

http://pxehost.example.com/myscripts/post-install-script

</post-install-script>

<admin-interface name="eth0" proto="dhcp" />

<timezone>Europe/London</timezone>

</installation>

C.3. Installation media repository format

The repository format described here should be used by installation sources and driver disks.

C.3.1. Presence of installation media repositories

Given a path, the presence of a Citrix installation media repository is determined by checking

for the existence of valid XS-REPOSITORY and XS-PACKAGES files. From a given base, that

base is checked, along with the packages, packages.main, packages.linux, and packages.site

subdirectories. Thus, a typical installation point will have the following format:

xs-installation

+-- packages.main

| +-- XS-REPOSITORY

| +-- XS-PACKAGES

| +-- ...

+-- packages.linux

| +-- XS-REPOSITORY

| +-- XS-PACKAGES

| +-- ...

+-- packages.site

| +-- XS-REPOSITORY

| +-- XS-PACKAGES

| +-- ...

A typical driver disk will have the following layout:

xs-driver-disk

+-- XS-REPOSITORY

+-- XS-PACKAGES

In the first example, given a path to xs-installation, the XenServer installer will detect the

presence of three repositories. In the second example, xs-driver-disk, a single repository

will be detected.