Installing Xen on Debian Etch 4.0

Posted by dba477 on Aug 26, 2007 6:39 AM EDT
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For a long time I have tested many different virtualization techniques; Xen, VMWare, and Microsoft VM. Until now I’m able to conclude that all of them are usable on my desktop machine, but both VMWare and Microsoft’s VM are more sluggish that Xen. This weekend I deployed my first server based on the upcoming Debian Etch and Xen. Everything worked out of the box.

Here is what I did to install Xen on Debian Etch: 

sudo apt-get install xen-linux-system-2.6.18-4-xen-686 libc6-xen bridge-utils
Boot into the newly installed Xen enabled Linux kernel 
sudo reboot
Then adjusted the network settings in /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp. Enabling the network bridge: (network-script network-bridge)
Install xen-tools: 
apt-get install xen-tools
Xen tools is a collection package containing different tools related to Xen, a virtual machine creator etc.

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