Howto Xen XCP-NG

installation

download iso:

wget https://mirrors.xcp-ng.org/isos/8.2/xcp-ng-8.2.1-20231130.iso?https=1 -O xcp-ng-8.2.1-20231130.iso

install xen-orchestra

clone repo using git:

git clone https://github.com/ronivay/xen-orchestra-docker

enable ssl in docker-compose:

# ports
ports:
  - "80:80"
  - "443:443"
# redirect to https
  - REDIRECT_TO_HTTPS=true
# certificates path inside container
  - CERT_PATH='/cert.pem'
  - KEY_PATH='/cert.key'
# volumes
volumes:
  - ./xo-data:/var/lib/xo-server
  - ./redis-data:/var/lib/redis
# mount certificate files to container 
- ./certs/cert.pem:/cert.pem
- ./certs/cert.key:/cert.key
- ./certs/ca.pem:/host-ca.pem

start docker container using docker-compose:

docker-compose up -d

import cloud image

download debian 12 cloud image:

wget http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/cloud/bookworm/latest/debian-12-generic-amd64.qcow2

convert image to vhd:

qemu-img convert -f qcow2 -O vpc -o subformat=dynamic  debian-12-generic-amd64.qcow2 debian-12-generic-amd64.vhd -p

import image in xen-orchestra:

/ login / import / disk / sr local storage

references

• https://github.com/ronivay/XenOrchestraInstallerUpdater
• https://docs.xcp-ng.org