<![CDATA[Self service systems - how to build templates?]]>Hey there,

I've recently started looking into xen orchestra+xcp-ng as a self service vm portal for users to provision their own Windows and Linux vms. One thing I'm missing though is a good primer on what's required to make those base templates and in the case of windows do an active directory domain join.

With VMware I'm used to making templates from code with packer, and then the vm cloned from the template is customised with some ansible scripts.

I'm having a bit of a hard time find some good end to end references on how to do this in xcp-ng. Any links with reading material or general advice from people who have already achieved this would be appreciated.

Thanks!

]]>https://xcp-ng.org/forum/topic/5651/self-service-systems-how-to-build-templatesRSS for NodeSat, 18 Apr 2026 16:58:46 GMTTue, 08 Mar 2022 12:18:02 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Self service systems - how to build templates? on Mon, 28 Nov 2022 20:43:29 GMT]]>I would like some examples too.

My latest (first) try gives me:

alfcruz-adm@local.hcpa.ufrgs.br@volt-ampere:~/packer-plugin-xenserver$ packer build ./ubuntu-2004.pkr.hcl
xenserver-iso.ubuntu-2004: output will be in this color.

Build 'xenserver-iso.ubuntu-2004' errored after 8 seconds 155 milliseconds: API Error: SESSION_AUTHENTICATION_FAILED root Authentication failure

==> Wait completed after 8 seconds 155 milliseconds

==> Some builds didn't complete successfully and had errors:
--> xenserver-iso.ubuntu-2004: API Error: SESSION_AUTHENTICATION_FAILED root Authentication failure

==> Builds finished but no artifacts were created.
alfcruz-adm@local.hcpa.ufrgs.br@volt-ampere:~/packer-plugin-xenserver$

Using root user. This user/pass works over SSH.

]]>https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/55531https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/55531Mon, 28 Nov 2022 20:43:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Self service systems - how to build templates? on Sat, 19 Nov 2022 16:03:48 GMT]]>@ruskofd have you removed this examples? i got 404.

]]>https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/55161https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/55161Sat, 19 Nov 2022 16:03:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Self service systems - how to build templates? on Wed, 09 Mar 2022 16:53:55 GMT]]>@olivierlambert Done ✅

]]>https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/47556https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/47556Wed, 09 Mar 2022 16:53:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Self service systems - how to build templates? on Wed, 09 Mar 2022 09:05:22 GMT]]>@marcungeschikts we probably need a card in our backlog to find resources to move Packer using XO API 🙂

]]>https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/47537https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/47537Wed, 09 Mar 2022 09:05:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Self service systems - how to build templates? on Wed, 09 Mar 2022 09:03:58 GMT]]>And thanks @ruskofd for the examples!

]]>https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/47536https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/47536Wed, 09 Mar 2022 09:03:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Self service systems - how to build templates? on Wed, 09 Mar 2022 09:03:40 GMT]]>We'd love to have a packer plugin for XO to be even more flexible (allow building templates across multiple pools at the same time). But we lack the resources to do it now 😞

]]>https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/47535https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/47535Wed, 09 Mar 2022 09:03:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Self service systems - how to build templates? on Tue, 08 Mar 2022 19:24:37 GMT]]>@ruskofd Awesome, thank you!

]]>https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/47525https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/47525Tue, 08 Mar 2022 19:24:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Self service systems - how to build templates? on Tue, 08 Mar 2022 18:17:26 GMT]]>@davx8342 There is a Packer plugin for XCP-ng : https://github.com/ddelnano/packer-plugin-xenserver

I use it in my homelab, I have some manifests in public on my GitHub profile if you want some examples : https://github.com/ruskofd/xcp-ng-images

]]>https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/47522https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/47522Tue, 08 Mar 2022 18:17:26 GMT