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| 3 | = Massive Deployment of Xen enabled Virtual Cluster with Diskless Remote Boot Linux = |
| 4 | |
| 5 | == Test Environment == |
| 6 | |
| 7 | * VMWare Server 1.0.3 |
| 8 | * VMWare Image debian 4.0r1 |
| 9 | * [[Image(drbl_xen_vmx.jpg)]] |
| 10 | * [attachment:drbl_xen_pkg.lst Installed Package List] |
| 11 | * [attachment:drbl_xen.vmx reference vmx file] |
| 12 | |
| 13 | == Pre-installation == |
| 14 | |
| 15 | * First, install Xen Hypervisor and Xen enabled Linux Kernel and then reboot |
| 16 | {{{ |
| 17 | root@drbl-xen-srv:~# uname -a |
| 18 | Linux drbl-xen-srv 2.6.18-6-686 #1 SMP Sat May 24 10:24:42 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux |
| 19 | root@drbl-xen-srv:~# apt-get install xen-hypervisor-3.0.3-1-i386-pae linux-image-2.6.18-6-xen-vserver-686 xen-tools libc6-xen |
| 20 | root@drbl-xen-srv:~# update-grub |
| 21 | root@drbl-xen-srv:~# reboot |
| 22 | }}} |
| 23 | * Note: If you did not install libc6-xen, you might have "4gb seg fixup" error message keep showing up while booting. |
| 24 | [[Image(xen_4gb_seg_fixup.png)]] |
| 25 | * Choose Xen to boot at GRUB menu |
| 26 | [[Image(xen_grub.png)]] |