Posts Tagged ‘xen’

Today Citrix announced that it will distribute its enterprise packaging of Xen for free. This brings fancy gui management and features available in VMwares ESX server to everyone. (Actually I’m not clear if just the ability is there or if they actually are letting the gui go as well.)

This is not a scaled down, limited version of the hypervisor. From the end of March on, there will be only one edition of XenServer which and it will be free.

The ability to manage multiple hosts via XenCenter, live migration via XenMotion, and resource sharing pools are all included in this free release.

Read the press release here.

I can’t wait to see what VMware does in response.

A few days ago I finally got my copy of Running Xen. I was anxious to see how the information would be presented. I can tell you I was not disappointed. (more…)

After more testing I have narrowed the issue that I left off with to a problem with the yum conf inside of the chroot. (more…)

At work I am just beginning the process of migrating from a hosted dedicated server to a Xen instance on a new server we have. Our dedicated server runs centos, and has WHM cpanel installed. So I figured it would be a good thing to have cpanel again as several people are familiar with it, and we do host a few random websites for people still. Cpanel does not support debian to my knowledge so Centos 5 sounds like the best way to go. (more…)

I am in the process of setting up Xen on one of my new servers. Just sticking some notes here. Will clean them up later

inittab changes 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1 #2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2 #3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3 #4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4 #5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5 #6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6 No need for kernel level ip address in xen config file set ip =”off”;

DO NOT SET eth0 to start on boot! just add xend to the default runlevel it will start eth0 for you! If you dont let xen do it for you your networking in domUs will be fubar.

[backdated from old website]