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| | 3 | = Massive Deployment of Xen enabled Virtual Cluster with Diskless Remote Boot Linux = |
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| | 5 | == Test Environment == |
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| | 7 | * VMWare Server 1.0.3 |
| | 8 | * VMWare Image debian 4.0r1 |
| | 9 | * [[Image(drbl_xen_vmx.jpg)]] |
| | 10 | * [attachment:drbl_xen_pkg.lst Installed Package List] |
| | 11 | * [attachment:drbl_xen.vmx reference vmx file] |
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| | 13 | == Pre-installation == |
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| | 15 | * First, install Xen Hypervisor and Xen enabled Linux Kernel and then reboot |
| | 16 | {{{ |
| | 17 | root@drbl-xen-srv:~# uname -a |
| | 18 | Linux drbl-xen-srv 2.6.18-6-686 #1 SMP Sat May 24 10:24:42 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux |
| | 19 | root@drbl-xen-srv:~# apt-get install xen-hypervisor-3.0.3-1-i386-pae linux-image-2.6.18-6-xen-vserver-686 xen-tools libc6-xen |
| | 20 | root@drbl-xen-srv:~# update-grub |
| | 21 | root@drbl-xen-srv:~# reboot |
| | 22 | }}} |
| | 23 | * Note: If you did not install libc6-xen, you might have "4gb seg fixup" error message keep showing up while booting. |
| | 24 | [[Image(xen_4gb_seg_fixup.png)]] |
| | 25 | * Choose Xen to boot at GRUB menu |
| | 26 | [[Image(xen_grub.png)]] |