One of my biggest gripes with Xenserver is the management utility, XenCenter, from Citrix is Windows only. My laptop runs Fedora, with a Windows VM, but I’d prefer a web GUI. Don’t get me wrong, XenCenter is well done and for certain things I still find myself using it.
Then I stumbled upon Xen Orchestra. Initially I tried the appliance, XOA, and watched it mature over a number of months. However, some of the features I wanted to try were limited to the “Premium” version. Then I discovered that the developers want to support little guys like me and provide the full features if you compile from sources. Sweet!
Their manual provides instructions for a Debian based host, but I prefer Centos 7. I patched together a couple scripts to help. One automates the install, the other automates the upgrade. My original upgrade script was VERY basic, but then I found a much better one on the internet somewhere, but I lost the reference or I’d give you a shout out….sorry.
- Automated Installer on Centos 7 x64 Minimal install
- Automated upgrader
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