Hi Thanks for your reply and suggestions, much appreciated. On 13/10/12 23:13, Samuel Krempp wrote: > Bengt Thuree a écrit, le 12/10/2012 00:57: >> Hi >> >> I am trying to setup an Debian-Education environment here at home, and >> since I am not having enough hardware, I decided to run the Main Server >> and Thin Client Server in an virtualized environment (xen). > > I do run a virtualized tjener at work (using VirtualBox, as I am more > familiar to its setup, with direct access to the raid array devices, > and networking setup). It serves NFS to 30 workstations quite ok. I managed to install it nicely under KVM, but that is just for some simple test and verification. > >> I could not figure out a way to install debian-education using the CD >> though, so I installed a normal vanilla Squeeze environment, and then >> ... > > ?? it should be quite simple. With virtualBox, first run of the VM > prompts you to which ISO you want to boot, and voilà. Xen probably is > not much harder. > Regarding software, I usually prefer to stay on the most travelled > path, best way to avoid undiscovered painful bugs and headaches. > Whence I'd advise you to simply restart install using Debian-edu iso. > Though someone more knowledgeable than me might be able to say wether > or not using a regular debian install could lead to issues later on. As you said, simple to use the ISO image under KVM. XEN is different though. So far I have not been able to install an Debian Education DomU by using the CD. So, I am trying with a very minimal Squeeze and adding the workstation and thin client server meta packages. So far with not to good success. * ldap not configured * dhcp not configured * CUPS not installed Runing the debian-edu-test-install and comparing each issue with my KVM installation. Fingers crossed.. but not to easy for sure. Would be great if Debian Education also shipped XEN enabled vmlinuz and kernel. That would make it a bit easier for sure. > >> I am using 192.168.1.22 as the main interface on this main server, and >> having 10.0.2.2 as a virtual interface (eth0:1). >> >> Having some issues for the moment, >> * Can not launch gosa (is it locked to a specific network or interface?) >> * Can not boot my thin clients via pxe. > > network setup with virtualized environments can be tricky, are you > familiar with it ? and with iptables NAT ? > > my first reaction to your setup is the use of a virtual interface. > They don't really act as full interfaces in some obscure corners. And > dhcp is one such very special case. > Can you try adding a dedicatetd NIC for the 10.0.2.2 to serve dhcp and > PXE to the clients ? Bengt
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