I have a poweredge 2600 and trying to installing the xen hypervisor. The server has been wiped, nothing on it. How do I go about installing, new to servers ;-) -- Elisha _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Fajar A. Nugraha
2010-Jul-23 13:46 UTC
Re: [Xen-users] installing xen on dell poweredge 2600
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Elisha Tigah <kwaku5752@gmail.com> wrote:> I have a poweredge 2600 and trying to installing the xen hypervisor. The > server has been wiped, nothing on it. How do I go about installing, new to > servers ;-)The easy way? Since you''re new to servers, simply install Centos 5.5, choose "virtualization" group during installation. That''s it, you''ll have a rock-stable, well-tested version of Xen, suitable for common purposes. Don''t forget to check your BIOS settings to make sure hardware virtualization support is enabled (needed to run HVM guests, e.g. Windows). -- Fajar _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
You need to start with a Linux distribution (or Solaris, if you prefer) and get that installed. Many Linux distributions contain support for Xen and have packages. A notable exception is that the later versions of RHEL & CentOS have pushed over to KVM, so setting up Xen as a dom0 may not work out of the box. Once you have Linux set up, install the Xen packages, or install a development environment and build Xen from source. Once Xen is built and installed, you also need to build a Xen kernel - either the patched kernel (2.6.18 or the SuSE patches for later kernels) or the later pv_ops kernels (caution, there are some incompatibilities between pv_ops kernels and various versions of Xen). Then you can boot Xen and the new Linux Xen/pv_ops kernel and you''re ready to go. This is a very concise description - check out the Xen.org page, especially the Wiki, as quite a few folks have written detailed instructions. Oh, one other thing, the PowerEdge 2600 does not support virtualization technology, which means you will only be able to run modified (Xen-aware, patched) kernels. This means the O/Ss you can run on this box will be limited to Linux, OpenSolaris, and a couple of the BSD variants. Running unmodified guest O/Ss (HVM) on Xen requires that your system and CPUs support virtualization technology. -Nick>>> On 2010/07/23 at 07:10, Elisha Tigah <kwaku5752@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a poweredge 2600 and trying to installing the xen hypervisor. The > server has been wiped, nothing on it. How do I go about installing, new to > servers ;-)-------- This e-mail may contain confidential and privileged material for the sole use of the intended recipient. If this email is not intended for you, or you are not responsible for the delivery of this message to the intended recipient, please note that this message may contain SEAKR Engineering (SEAKR) Privileged/Proprietary Information. In such a case, you are strictly prohibited from downloading, photocopying, distributing or otherwise using this message, its contents or attachments in any way. If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by replying to this e-mail and delete the message from your mailbox. Information contained in this message that does not relate to the business of SEAKR is neither endorsed by nor attributable to SEAKR. _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users