Installing a test scripts server on XVM ======================================= It's useful to have a less secure scripts server for testing purposes. Here's what you have to do: 1. Creating the VM ------------------ To authenticate to xvm.mit.edu with root tickets, you need a browser that suppors SPNEGO; Firefox is one such browser and the following instructions will assume it. Browse to about:config and modify the key 'network.negotiate-auth.trusted-uris' to be https://xvm.mit.edu:442/* Then, with active root tickets on your system, navigate to https://xvm.mit.edu:442/ You should be logged in as root, and if you are on scripts-root you should be able to assign ownership to scripts. [XXX: there should be a way to do this with remctl too] 2. Spin up ---------- These instructions are mostly the same as the latter part of install-fedora, with the following changes: VNC --- You will not need to sketchily forward VNC, because XVM has a built in VNC console. Password -------- Do NOT use the scripts-root password. Pick something else. Disks ----- The standard Scripts setup has separate LVM partitions for root and swap, as well as a non-LVM partition for boot. You will not have this for XVM, so the Fedora defaults mostly work. Don't use ext4 though.