Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Xen_Installation/Xen3

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Jun 2, 2010, 10:28:14 AM (14 years ago)

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rock

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Xen_Installation/Xen3

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+[[PageOutline]]
+= Xen Installation =
+[[BR]]
+== 1. Installation ==
+=== 1.1 Install from Debian package (the latest version -> Xen-3.0.3) ===
+ * Our OS is Debian etch, we use deb package to install Xen
+{{{
+$ sudo aptitude install xen-linux-system-2.6.18-6-xen-686
+(you can refer to our installation log in attache file)
+
+$ sync ; sudo reboot
+(reboot system and choose xen-enable kernel)
+}}}
+=== 1.2 Install form Xen source (the latest version -> Xen-3.2.0, !OpenNebula just spuuort Xen-3.1 later) ===
+ * Install requirement package
+{{{
+$ aptitude install mercurial iproute bridge-utils python-twisted gcc binutils make zlib1g-dev python-dev transfig bzip2 screen ssh debootstrap libcurl3-dev libncurses5-dev x-dev libsdl1.2-dev  bin86 bcc python-pam patch latex-make qemu qemu-launcher qemuctl graphviz graphviz-dev lvm2 libvncserver-dev libjpeg62-dev libjpeg62 gettext python-xml gawk pciutils pciutils-dev libc6.xen
+}}}
+ * Install Xen-3.2.0
+{{{
+$ wget http://bits.xensource.com/oss-xen/release/3.2.0/xen-3.2.0.tar.gz
+$ wget http://bits.xensource.com/oss-xen/release/3.2.0/linux-2.6.18-xen-3.2.0.tar.gz
+$ mkdir ~/xen
+$ tar zxvf xen-3.2.0.tar.gz -C ~/xen/ && tar zxvf linux-2.6.18-xen-3.2.0.tar.gz -C ~/xen/
+$ cd ~/xen/xen-3.2.0
+$ hg clone http://xenbits.xensource.com/linux-2.6.18-xen.hg
+$ make dist && make install
+$ depmod 2.6.18-xen
+$ mkinitramfs -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-xen 2.6.18-xen
+$ update-grub
+}}}
+== 2. Check Xen ==
+ * Check our Xen system
+{{{
+$ uname -a
+Linux one 2.6.18-6-xen-686 #1 SMP Sun Feb 10 22:43:13 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
+}}}
+ * Configure our Xen environment
+{{{
+$ vim /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp
+71:    network-script network-bridge
+87: #network-script netwok-dummy
+
+$ xend restart
+$ xm list
+}}}
+
+[[BR]]
+[[BR]]
+== 3. Xen Operation ==
+=== 3.1 Install Guest OS (DomU) ===
+
+ * To create simple Guest OS, try ''xen-create-image'' which is included in ''[http://www.xen-tools.org/ xen-tools]''
+{{{
+$ man xen-create-image
+}}}
+   * Debian package: [http://packages.debian.org/etch/xen-tools xen-tools]
+ * Install Guest OS
+{{{
+$ sudo mkdir /home/xen_img
+$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/xen_img/etch.img bs=1G count=5
+$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/xen_img/etch.swap bs=514MB count=1
+$ sudo /home/xen_img/mkfs.ext3 etch.img
+$ sudo /home/xen_img/mkswap etch.swap
+$ sudo mount -o loop etch.img /mnt
+$ sudo debootstrap --arch i386 etch /mnt/ http://free.nchc.org.tw/debian
+}}}
+ * Config Guest OS
+{{{
+$ sudo vim /etc/fstab
+/etc/fstab
+/dev/hda1    /          ext3      defaults 0 1
+/dev/hda2   swap    swap      defaults 0 0
+proc             /proc   proc      defaults 0 0
+
+$ sudo vim /etc/hostname
+etch
+
+$ sudo vim /etc/hosts
+$ sudo vim /etc/network/interfaces
+$ sudo cp /etc/apt/sources.list /mnt/etc/apt/
+$ sudo cp -r /lib/modules/2.6.18-6-xen-686/ /mnt/lib/modules/
+
+$ sudo chroot /mnt
+$ passwd root
+$ adduser rock
+$ sudo umount /mnt
+}}}
+ * Edit Guest OS configuration
+{{{
+$ sudo vim /home/xen_img/etch.cfg
+# Kernel image
+kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-6-xen-686"
+ramdisk = "/boot/inird.img-2.6.18-6-xen-686"
+# Domain name
+name = "etch"
+# 0achine information
+vcpus = 4
+memory = 256
+disk = ['file:/home/xen_img/etch.img,hda1,w','file:/home/xen_img/etch.swap,hda2,w']
+vif = ['mac=00:00:00:00:00:01,bridge=xenbr1']
+}}}
+ * Guest OS problem
+{{{
+$ mount /home/xen_img/etch.img /mnt
+$ chroot /mnt
+
+Guest booting Error: 4gb seg fixup, process init (pid 1), cs:ip 73:b7e192fc
+$ aptitinstall libc6-xen
+
+locale problem:
+$ aptitinstall install locales
+$ dpkg-reconfigure -a locale
+$ tzxonfig
+}}}
+
+[[BR]]
+[[BR]]
+= Refrenece =
+ * http://www.howtoforge.com/debian_etch_xen_3.1
+ * http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/InstallationNotes
+ * http://www.option-c.com/xwiki/Xen_Debian_Quick_Start
+ * https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Xen