Are there any good, recent, comprehensive sources of instruction for the Xen Hypervisor? Almost all of the information that I''ve found on the Internet (so far) are incomplete. The four most popular books available through Amazon.com are quite old... * "The Book of Xen: A Practical Guide for the System Administrator" - 5.0 stars / 2009 * "Running Xen: A Hands-On Guide to the Art of Virtualization" - 4.6 stars / 2008 * "Professional Xen Virtualization" - 3.8 stars / 2008 * "The Definitive Guide to the Xen Hypervisor" - 4.8 stars / 2007 Ideally, I''d like to find a reference as complete and thorough as your typical O''Reilly book (if such a reference exists). TIA, Eric Pretorious Truckee, CA _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-users
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Eric <epretorious@yahoo.com> wrote:> Are there any good, recent, comprehensive sources of instruction for the Xen > Hypervisor?... for what? using it?> > Almost all of the information that I''ve found on the Internet (so far) are > incomplete. > > The four most popular books available through Amazon.com are quite old... > > "The Book of Xen: A Practical Guide for the System Administrator" - 5.0 > stars / 2009 > "Running Xen: A Hands-On Guide to the Art of Virtualization" - 4.6 stars / > 2008 > "Professional Xen Virtualization" - 3.8 stars / 2008 > "The Definitive Guide to the Xen Hypervisor" - 4.8 stars / 2007 > > Ideally, I''d like to find a reference as complete and thorough as your > typical O''Reilly book (if such a reference exists).Most of the "old" guide should still be applicable. In fact, if you''re only interested in USING xen for common VM setup, I''d actually suggest start with RHEL5''s virtualization guide. Old, but pretty good, and just works. -- Fajar
Thanks, Fajar: I''ve read the RHEL5 Virtualization Guide and, while it is helpful, it''s far from complete IMHO. e.g., The guidance that is given is far too general, and; libvirt''s CLI tools hardly get a mention in most places (with the authors preferring, instead, to use virt-manager almost exclusively). Eric Pretorious Truckee, CA>________________________________ > From: Fajar A. Nugraha <list@fajar.net> >To: Eric <epretorious@yahoo.com> >Cc: "xen-users@lists.xen.org" <xen-users@lists.xen.org> >Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 8:53 PM >Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Recommended Reading for Xen Hypervisor? > >On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Eric <epretorious@yahoo.com> wrote: >> Are there any good, recent, comprehensive sources of instruction for the Xen >> Hypervisor? > >... for what? using it? > >> >> Almost all of the information that I''ve found on the Internet (so far) are >> incomplete. >> >> The four most popular books available through Amazon.com are quite old... >> >> "The Book of Xen: A Practical Guide for the System Administrator" - 5.0 >> stars / 2009 >> "Running Xen: A Hands-On Guide to the Art of Virtualization" - 4.6 stars / >> 2008 >> "Professional Xen Virtualization" - 3.8 stars / 2008 >> "The Definitive Guide to the Xen Hypervisor" - 4.8 stars / 2007 >> >> Ideally, I''d like to find a reference as complete and thorough as your >> typical O''Reilly book (if such a reference exists). > >Most of the "old" guide should still be applicable. In fact, if you''re >only interested in USING xen for common VM setup, I''d actually suggest >start with RHEL5''s virtualization guide. Old, but pretty good, and >just works. > >-- >Fajar > > >_______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-users
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Eric <epretorious@yahoo.com> wrote:> Thanks, Fajar: > > I''ve read the RHEL5 Virtualization Guide and, while it is helpful, it''s far > from complete IMHO. e.g., The guidance that is given is far too general, > and; libvirt''s CLI tools hardly get a mention in most places (with the > authors preferring, instead, to use virt-manager almost exclusively).That''s why I asked "for what?". libvirt (including virt-manager) is a separate program, not part of xen. The books you mentioned MIGHT have some documentation on it. However the primary userland command for xen is xm/xl and (if you use xcp or xapi toolstack) xe. At this point I''d suggest you finish reading and testing RHEL''s virtualization guide, to get an idea on how xen-for-dummies work. After that, start by reading http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_Beginners_Guide . After that, you can either browse other pages of the wiki and ask questions on what you don''t understand, or buy one of the books that you mentioned. There used to be a complete guide for xen 3.0 at http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netos/xen/documentation.html , but at this point I recommend you don''t read that yet, and instead read the above documentation first. -- Fajar
> From: Fajar A. Nugraha <list@fajar.net>>To: Eric <epretorious@yahoo.com> >Cc: "xen-users@lists.xen.org" <xen-users@lists.xen.org> >Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 9:21 PM >Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Recommended Reading for Xen Hypervisor? > >On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Eric <epretorious@yahoo.com> wrote: >> Thanks, Fajar: >> >> I''ve read the RHEL5 Virtualization Guide and, while it is helpful, it''s far >> from complete IMHO. e.g., The guidance that is given is far too general, >> and; libvirt''s CLI tools hardly get a mention in most places (with the >> authors preferring, instead, to use virt-manager almost exclusively). > >... > >At this point I''d suggest you finish reading and testing RHEL''s >virtualization guide, to get an idea on how xen-for-dummies work. >After that, start by reading >http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_Beginners_Guide . > >After that, you can either browse other pages of the wiki and ask >questions on what you don''t understand, or buy one of the books that >you mentioned. > >There used to be a complete guide for xen 3.0 at >http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netos/xen/documentation.html , >but at this point I recommend you don''t read that yet, and instead >read the above documentation first.FWIW: I chose to start with "The Book of Xen" (Takemura & Crawford, 2009 - No Starch Press). So far I''ve read the preface and first-half of four of the chapters (as a sort of sample) and I have been _very_ impressed with the the content and the style. Eric Pretorious Truckee, CA