Re: [SLE] Anybody using Xen?

On Tuesday 06 June 2006 01:16, Jerry Westrick wrote:


And how does one go about setting up a XEN Server using SUSE 10.1 (pay
version)?

I heard that the YAST config for xen should be fixed, but how to use it is
still beyond me...

What I want to do is run sub doms, one is a backup for a server, the second
a development environment...

Any suggestions on where/what to read?

Or how to set it up?


Ideally you need to install the Xen bits and pieces when you initially install
SuSE 10.1 as this automatically sets up grub to support Xen as a boot option.
It may do this after the event in 10.1 if you install Xen from Yast, but I
haven't tried.

If you Google around there is plenty of documentation to be found.

Everything you need for Xen in on the SUSE disks open or paid version. If you
look at the application selections in the Yast package manager there is a
selection called Xen just select it and off you go.

Before you create a virtual machine you need to have booted the host machine
with a Xen aware kernel (select this in Grub), from then on you can use the
Xen install option within YAST. I have a SUSE install directory on my NFS
server and always install VMs from this as a network install source. You can
in theory install from local CDs/DVD on you host machine but this wasn't very
reliable in some of the release candidates and I haven't tried it with the
released version.

The Yast Xen installer gives you options for setting up a VM, I suggest you
initially accept the defaults, you may however want to change the size and
location of the virtual disk file, I think the default is 4GB.

Once you have one or more Xen VMs up and running you can stop and start them
and connect to the console from within Yast although it's pretty simple to
do this from the command shell and you have far more utilities available to
you this way.

I started out the hard way hand crafting VMs with SUSE 10.0 it's a lot easier
now in Yast but it does help if you understand the basic principles and the
format of the configuration file you need to define and start a VM. This
knowledge has enabled my to get Debian and SUSE 9.3 VMs running on my server,
although I did need to use VMware to get the base installs working in the
first place.

David

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