[Xen-users] Setup Debian etch on Debian etch using hvmloader

[gentoouser <gentoouser@xxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I want to set up a xen-system on Debian etch (using default Debian 
packages) with Intel Xeons 5160 that offer the Vanderpool technology. 
The first guest will also be Debian etch and I want to make use of the 
full virtualization capabilities of the cpu.
Reading the manuals I am getting a bit confused on how to set this up 
right. The user manual suggests to use "vmxloader" which is not 
installed on my system (instead there is "hvmloader"). Is this the same 
stuff or do I have to use something else?
In a paravirtualized environment the kernel for guests lies on the dom0 
filesystem (e.g. /boot) and is listed in the configuration for the 
guest. But for my setup I will need a proper kernel installation inside 
the guest, am I right?
I find a lot of documentation about setups using debootstrap but I 
wonder whether I could use a CD-image of the official etch-installer and 
let the system?s first start be from this one in order to simplify the 
setup. If so, would I need anything like vnc for this (the server is in 
a remote data center, so I don?t have direct access to it).
That is a lot of questions. Thanks a lot in advance...


My setup so far:

The server has 2 Xeon 5160, 16 GB Ram. The dom0 should use 2 GB Ram for 
itself, the rest goes to the guests.
Xen Debian etch packages (up to date):

# I want to use LVS later

ii  linux-headers-2.6.18-4-xen-vserver-amd64
ii  linux-image-2.6.18-4-xen-vserver-amd64
ii  linux-modules-2.6.18-4-xen-vserver-amd64
ii  xen-hypervisor-3.0.3-1-amd64
ii  xen-ioemu-3.0.3-1
ii  xen-linux-system-2.6.18-4-xen-vserver-amd64 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12etch2 

ii  xen-tools
ii  xen-utils-3.0.3-1
ii  xen-utils-common

Configuration for Xen:

(network-script network-bridge)
(vif-script vif-bridge)
(dom0-min-mem 2048)
(dom0-cpus 0)

Configuration for grub:

title           Xen 3.0.3-1-amd64 / Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 
2.6.18-4-xen-vserver-amd64
root          (hd0,0)
kernel       /xen-3.0.3-1-amd64.gz dom0_mem=2G
module     /vmlinuz-2.6.18-4-xen-vserver-amd64 root=/dev/sda2 ro 
console=tty0
module     /initrd.img-2.6.18-4-xen-vserver-amd64

Configuration for guest:

# based on the hints from 
/usr/share/doc/xen-utils-common/examples/xmexample.hvm
kernel = "hvmloader"
builder='hvm'
memory = 2048
shadow_memory = 12
name = "test1"
vcpus=2
acpi=1
apic=1
cpus = ""
vif = [ 'type=ioemu, bridge=xenbr0' ]
disk = [ 'phy:VolGroup00/lvo10,ioemu:sda1,w', 
'phy:VolGroup00/lvo11,ioemu:sda2,w' ]
# one is for / the second is swap

on_poweroff = 'destroy'
on_reboot   = 'restart'
on_crash    = 'restart'
device_model = 'qemu-dm'
sdl=0
vnc=0

stdvga=0
serial='pty'
localtime=0

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