XEN is a hypervisor based virtualization technique.
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Can rpm handle an install of another OS into another Logical Volume?
I am trying to install fedora as a domU under a CentOS dom0 using the method outlined in The Book of Xen. I have asked another question regarding a consistent error message of cpio: Bad magic when I ...
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Getting “cpio: Bad magic” when trying to rpm install into a mounted Logical Volume
I need some help with this. I am trying to follow the Xen guide to provision a domU using package installation of the Fedora 15 release (the dom0 is CentOS 5.6). Ive run the rpm install command with ...
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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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Mysterious write IO
I am just reviewing the disk IO of a XEN VM server. I stumbled across a DomU that has constant write traffic.
To narrow that traffic further down I logged in to the DomU (CentOS 5, 64 Bit) and ...
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Troubleshooting Bug: Soft Lockup
We're having some trouble here with "soft lockup"s in our /var/log/syslog. The system seems to freeze for 10-70 seconds, then comes back. This is affecting web serving and other key processes. It ...
