Ceph and libvirt technology preview

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This "technology preview" is an experimental set of software packages which allow you to experiment and play with XenServer (formerly XCP) + CentOS 6.4 + ceph storage + libvirt. Obviously the packages should not be used in production! However now is a good time to play, discover issues, suggest things, build things and generally get involved.

Installing the tech preview

The tech preview consists of an RPM repo for CentOS 6.4 which contains the experimental software. It can be installed by first adding the repository:

rpm -ihv http://xenbits.xen.org/djs/xenserver-tech-preview-release-0.3.0-0.x86_64.rpm

and then installing the xenserver-core metapackage:

yum install -y xenserver-core

Once the packages have been installed, you can create a basic system configuration by running:

xenserver-install-wizard

Note the wizard works best on 'clean' environments (i.e. like that just after a fresh CentOS install). If it fails either: correct the problem and re-run, or perhaps inspect what the script is doing and adapt to your environment. Once the basic configuration is completed, you must reboot your system. Note: it should be possible to polish the script so that a reboot becomes unnecessary.

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