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Hello Bill,

I don't know about an all-inclusive guide, but I recommend starting with Xen Man Pages and the Xen Wiki. The raw text files provide plenty of configuration details, and you should be able to search for tutorials:

http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_Man_Pages

With regards to your objectives, networking should be handled by Dom0 via the bridge-utils package and /etc/network/interfaces configuration. Also you may want to simplify your drive partitions since Xen virtual machines will treat the partitions as drives, which results in a new partition table and sub-partitioning each.

Here is a very basic example of the interfaces file you might want:

auto lo dev prod

iface lo inet loopback

iface eth0 inet manual

iface eth1 inet manual

iface prod inet manual

bridge_ports eth0

iface dev inet manual

bridge_ports eth1

Then you add a line like this to each virtual machine:

vif=['bridge=dev,model=e1000']

There is a lot of drive specifics you will want to read up on from the man pages, and specific configuration details for linux/unix virtual machines.

If you continue to encounter errors, share them and your Xen version.

I am working on a Debian Wheezy x64 platform with Xen 4.2 a Windows, PFSense, and Debian Wheezy HVM's, so my configuration objectives and syntax may not be exactly what you need, but if you want an example:

http://pastebin.com/9E1g1BHf

Best of luck, and let me know if any of that was unclear.

~Casey

On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 11:35 PM, Bill Beauchemin <bill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello All,
I have been working with Linux since 1999. I am now trying to use virtualization useing Xen. I have a project where I have a Dell 2950 server with two ethernet ports, and one 1TB drive. I have 64 bit Debian Squeeze installed and running. I need two instances of vm's one being devel and the other is prod. each should connect through one of the eth ports. so devel could be eth0 and prod could be on eth1.

I do have kernel vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 running.

I have had so many issues trying to just get one vm running. make a cfg file i get errors about installation files or hotplug issues. currently my disk structure is
fdisk -l
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 37 297171 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 38 6117 48837600 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 6118 6604 3911827+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda4 6605 115416 874032390 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 6605 60098 429690523+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 60099 60706 4883728+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7 60707 114808 434574283+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 114809 115416 4883728+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
sda1 is the boot
sda2 is swap for the base debian install and ada3 is swap for that
sda5 is for devel and sda6 is a swap for that
sda7 is for prod and sda8 is swap for that

My main question is if nthere is a tutorial that can help me with getting xen installed and configured correctly, configure a guest, install a guest, and boot the guest using the above configuration?

--
Bill Beauchemin
B2 Bass Adventures
Newark, Ca. 94560
(510) 552-7571

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