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Guide to installing Xen on CentOS 5.9 (That is still valid)

I need an idiots guide to installing Xen Hypervisor on CentOS 5.9 We attempted to install it on 6.3 before, but completely failed, so we reverted to 5.9 to see if we had more luck. We had issues ...
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Create a CentOS Guest img over Ubuntu

I want to create a basic CentOS 5.8 system from scratch. for now i build my own img for Ubuntu Guest (debootstrap), my host is a Ubuntu 12.04.1LTS but I don't know how to make for a CentOS, is ...
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PCI passthrough with Xen

I am trying to run Windows XP in a Xen DomU virtual machine with a PCIe device, for which there are no Linux drivers, being passed through from a Debian Squeeze Dom0. My hardware supports ...
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Unable to boot VM: Error 13: Invalid or Unsupported Executable Format

I used VMWare vConverter and everything converted fine, but when I try to boot I get an error: The physical machine boots correctly, so I don't think it is a source machine issue. I am not sure why ...
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OpenSolaris vs. Debian for Xen Hypervisor VM server

all. I've just purchased a computer that I'd like to repurpose as a lab server. It's a six-core AMD processor with 8 gigs of ram (16 gig max) and a terabyte hard drive. My idea is to hose Windows, ...
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XenServer how can I shrink the virtual drive of XenServer domU?

How can I shrink the virtual drive of XenServer image?. I gave 300Gb of space for one image (domU) and that was mistake. Now I want to shrink it. How can I do that? The system is already set up and ...
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Xen on openSUSE 11.4

I have done a few installs of openSUSE to use as a Xen dom0 and have not got it working yet. These are the steps I followed: Installed openSUSE 11.4 from Live KDE CD. Installed all updates via ...
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Multiple dom0's on a single Xen host?

I've recently been researching Xen, and this has come up as a quistion for me. Is it possible to have more than 1 dom0 running on a single Xen host? The reason I ask is that this is very similar ...
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What is Dom0 and how can one use it?

I have heard that Xen is now fully included into mainline Linux, and is usable via Dom0. Bare with me: I'm no expert on virtualization, let alone virtualization on Linux. What is Dom0, what is its ...
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Good tutorial for setting up a KVM/Xen box and advice on which would be better

I've got a dual xeon, 2GB, 75GB hd server that I'd like to turn into my dedicated virtual environment. Currently I'm using VirtualBox locally to run a mock cluster for Cassandra and Nginx/Haproxy, ...