====== Creating Debian Templates ======

Mainly you will need to create debian VM manually and then do the following steps to the template before converting it to Template

  - create new debian vm and while installing it make sure you do the following steps
     * make the boot partition is separate from other partitions (you can choose any file system for it)
     * remaining partitions should be lvm based storage be on lvm based storage<code>
    so that after you are done installing the following when you do lvdisplay
lvdisplay
  --- Logical volume ---
  LV Name                /dev/debian/root
  VG Name                debian
  LV UUID                FRarW6-pk6o-BibE-dkIy-3c8O-U1l9-en27mC
  LV Write Access        read/write
  LV Status              available
  # open                 1
  LV Size                19.39 GiB
  Current LE             4964
  Segments               2
  Allocation             inherit
  Read ahead sectors     auto
  - currently set to     256
  Block device           254:0

  --- Logical volume ---
  LV Name                /dev/debian/swap_1
  VG Name                debian
  LV UUID                s4PNXH-vtLx-U09C-Ggzn-2wg6-vbFC-qReidn
  LV Write Access        read/write
  LV Status              available
  # open                 1
  LV Size                376.00 MiB
  Current LE             94
  Segments               1
  Allocation             inherit
  Read ahead sectors     auto
  - currently set to     256
  Block device           254:1
</code>and df output is <code>
df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/debian-root
                       20G   14G  4.8G  74% /
tmpfs                 751M     0  751M   0% /lib/init/rw
udev                  737M   76K  737M   1% /dev
tmpfs                 751M     0  751M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/xvda1            228M   16M  201M   8% /boot


</code> __Note:__ the sizes are not important
  
  
  *   **now we need to make scripts run automatically on system startup** , 
get the script file: xenicastart.sh from your xenica package (or you can get it from [[HERE]]), and put inside /etc/
so that you will have the file locations as follows <code>/etc/xenicastart.sh</code>
 assign the executable mode to the file by the command <code>chmod +x /etc/xenicastart.sh</code>
Issue the following commands:
<code>update-rc.d xenicastart.sh start 20</code>

 
  * make sure xentools installed
  * install in the vm parted package<code>
apt-get install parted</code>
  * do fdisk -ul and write down the number you get in this section<code>
fdisk -ul 
dev/xvda1   *        2048      499711      248832   83  Linux
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/xvda2          501758    16775167     8136705    5  Extended
</code>in my case it was 16775167 (the end of /dev/xvda2 partition)
  * now open the script at /etc/xenicastart.sh and edit the line
<code>(echo n; echo p; echo 3; echo 16775168; echo ; echo t; echo 3; echo 8e; echo w) | fdisk -u /dev/xvda</code>
to the number you got in step 5 +1
  * convert to template