Hello All: I don''t think that this question was ever posed to this mailing list (at least not that I have seen). I am trying to set up a testbed for provisioning customized VMs. The only environment that I have root access to is on a VM running Scientific Linux 5.5 and I was hoping that I could install the Xen hypervisor on a domU so that I can simulate our production environment and have vm creation and destroy capabilities from inside a VM. Is this possible using Xen. I saw this similar question posed here http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-virtualization-90/run-multiple-xen-dom0s-on-same-machine-821872/ and it sounds as though they found a way to make this work using an evaluation copy of VMWare ESXi. It would be very nice to know if anyone in the community knows of a way to implement this idea using Xen. I tried to naively install xen and xen-libs on my VM and encountered the same result as described at the above link. The VM would come up but xend would not start. Is this even possible. Any advice or insight would be greatly appreciated. David _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Hello All: I don''t think that this question was ever posed to this mailing list (at least not that I have seen). I am trying to set up a testbed for provisioning customized VMs. The only environment that I have root access to is on a VM running Scientific Linux 5.5 and I was hoping that I could install the Xen hypervisor on a domU so that I can simulate our production environment and have vm creation and destroy capabilities from inside a VM. Is this possible using Xen. I saw this similar question posed here http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-virtualization-90/run-multiple-xen-dom0s-on-same-machine-821872/ and it sounds as though they found a way to make this work using an evaluation copy of VMWare ESXi. It would be very nice to know if anyone in the community knows of a way to implement this idea using Xen. I tried to naively install xen and xen-libs on my VM and encountered the same result as described at the above link. The VM would come up but xend would not start. Is this even possible. Any advice or insight would be greatly appreciated. David _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Hi David, On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 12:52 PM, David Grundy <dagrundy@gmail.com> wrote:> Hello All: > > I don''t think that this question was ever posed to this mailing list (at > least not that I have seen).It has: http://xen.markmail.org/search/?q=nested%20xen#query:nested%20xen%20type%3Ausers+page:1+mid:fev2e7fxc3ygareu+state:results It is a FAQ even (www.xen.org/files/Support/XenUsersCommonlyAskedQuestions.pdf) In short, you can run Xen in an HVM guest. Nesting Xen with hardware support (for example vmx) is also in the works. Patches have been posted to xen-devel. Hope that helps. Thanks, Todd -- Todd Deshane http://todddeshane.net http://runningxen.com _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 10:22 PM, David Grundy <dagrundy@gmail.com> wrote:> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-virtualization-90/run-multiple-xen-dom0s-on-same-machine-821872/Co incidentally the guy who replied to OPs question happens to be me :) Since you mailed so mentioning. _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users