Xen Virtualization Essentials
- Building a Xen Virtual Guest Filesystem on a Disk Image (Cloning Host System)
- Xen Requirements
- Creating a Disk Image for the Root Filesystem
- Creating a Swap Space Disk Image
- Cloning the Host OS on the Guest Domain
- Creating a Xen Configuration File
- Configuring System Files for the Guest Operating System
- Modifying /etc/fstab for the Guest System
- Booting the Guest OS
- Xen Guest Boot Problems
- Building a Xen Virtual Guest Filesystem on a Physical Disk Partition (Cloning Host System)
- An Overview of the Xen Host and Guest Physical Disks
- Preparing the Xen Disk Partitions
- Creating the a Filesystem on the Xen Guest Root Partition
- Configuring the Swap Partition for the Xen Guest System
- Mounting the Root Filesystem
- Cloning the Host OS on the Guest Root Partition
- Creating a Xen Configuration File
- Configuring System Files for the Guest Operating System
- Modifying /etc/fstab for the Guest System
- Booting the Guest OS
- Xen Guest Boot Problems
- Building a Xen Virtual Guest Filesystem using Logical Volume Management (LVM)
- The Key Components of Logical Volume Management
- Preparing for an LVM based Xen Guest Domain
- Converting Physical Disks into Physical Volumes
- Creating a Volume Group
- Creating a Logical Volume for the Xen Guest System
- Creating a Filesystem on the Logical Volume
- Configuring the Swap Partition for the Xen Guest System
- Mounting the Root Filesystem
- Cloning the Host OS on the Guest Root Partition
- Creating a Xen Configuration File
- Configuring System Files for the Guest Operating System
- Modifying /etc/fstab for the Guest System
- Booting the Guest OS
- Xen Guest Boot Problems
- Building a Xen Guest Root Filesystem using yum and rpm
- Building a Debian or Ubuntu Xen Guest Root Filesystem using debootstrap
- Creating the Xen Guest Root Filesystem
- Creating Swap for the Xen Guest Domain
- Installing the Base Ubuntu/Debian System using debootstrap
- Configuring the root Password
- Creating a Configuration File for the Guest Domain
- Configuring System Files for the Guest Operating System
- Modifying /etc/fstab for the Guest System
- Booting the Guest OS
- Xen Guest Boot Problems
- Building a Xen Guest Domain using Xen-Tools
- Getting Xen-Tools
- Configuring Xen-Tools
- Specifiy Xen-Tools Installation Location
- Specifying the Xen-Tools Installation Source and Method
- Configuring Disk Space and Memory for the Xen Guest
- Choosing a Linux Distribution
- Configuring Xen Guest Network Options
- Configuring the Kernel and RAM Disk
- Defining the Installation Source
- Miscellaneous Settings Xen-Tools Configuration
- Xen Guest Console Settings
- Options Disk Drive Device Naming
- Building the Xen Guest Images
- Booting the Xen Guest System
- Using QEMU Disk Images for Xen DomainU Systems
- Creating and Booting from an NFS based Xen Root Filesystem
- Solving Common Xen Boot Problems