Building a XenServer at Home with a Local Repository

November 5, 2015

I have gone over the process of setting up a XenServer before, but this time there is one major difference. It will be using a local repository instead of using a NAS as an ISO repository. This was a little tricky but not too bad. Once I had XenServer installed and configured, I opened an SSH session on the server. I used the following commands to create a local repository; <pre>mkdir -p /var/opt/xen/ISO_Storexe sr-create name-label=LocalISO type=iso device-config:location=/var/opt/xen/ISO_Store device-config:legacy_mode=true content-type=iso</pre>Now when I open XenCenter, there was a local repository attached to the server. I renamed the repository form within XenCenter to be more clear.

Now I can use wget to download files to the repository like so; <pre>cd /var/opt/xen/ISO_Storewget http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/8.2.0/amd64/iso-cd/debian-8.2.0-amd64-CD-1.iso</pre> Now I can create a new vm and use this local ISO! Once the download is complete, the file will be visible in the list;