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= Massive Deployment of Xen enabled Virtual Cluster with Diskless Remote Boot Linux =

== Test Environment ==

 * VMWare Server 1.0.3
 * VMWare Image debian 4.0r1
   * [[Image(drbl_xen_vmx.jpg)]]
   * [attachment:drbl_xen_pkg.lst Installed Package List]
   * [attachment:drbl_xen.vmx reference vmx file]

== Pre-installation ==

 * First, install Xen Hypervisor and Xen enabled Linux Kernel and then reboot
{{{
root@drbl-xen-srv:~# uname -a
Linux drbl-xen-srv 2.6.18-6-686 #1 SMP Sat May 24 10:24:42 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
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
root@drbl-xen-srv:~# update-grub
root@drbl-xen-srv:~# reboot
}}}
   * Note: If you did not install libc6-xen, you might have "4gb seg fixup" error message keep showing up while booting.
[[Image(xen_4gb_seg_fixup.png)]]
 * Choose Xen to boot at GRUB menu
[[Image(xen_grub.png)]]