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Debian wiki states that the network control scripts that come with Xen are going to be phased out eventually.  Goes on to say that you should setup networking yourself.
 
Debian wiki states that the network control scripts that come with Xen are going to be phased out eventually.  Goes on to say that you should setup networking yourself.
  

Revision as of 18:19, 22 July 2012

  • HVM is hardware and faster
  • PV is Paravirtualization and usually slower

The networking scripts that come with xen are going to be phased out because they do not work all the time. You should setup bridge manually.

Debian

Install

apt-get install xen-linux-system
apt-get install xen-qemu-dm-4.0
dpkg-divert --divert /etc/grub.d/08_linux_xen --rename /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen
update-grub

May want to do this eventually to limit dom0 ram:

/etc/default/grub
# Xen boot parameters for all Xen boots
GRUB_CMDLINE_XEN="dom0_mem=1024M"

then

update-grub

then edit

/etc/xen/xend-config.sxp
(dom0-min-mem 1024)
(enable-dom0-ballooning no)

You would then need to reboot.

Network Scripts

They do not want you to use these anymore and instead setup the bridging up manually. You want to comment out anything with

(network-script

in front of it and do it right.

I did not even use the vif-script

/etc/xen/scripts/network-bridge
/etc/xen/scripts/vif-bridge

Notes

Configure Networking and Install

Debian wiki states that the network control scripts that come with Xen are going to be phased out eventually. Goes on to say that you should setup networking yourself.

Note: You need to zero out your eth0 connection or the bridge will stop communication to eth0.

Something like:

ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0

You cannot have and address assigned to eth0 and have it bridged at the same time. It will not work. I do not know if an alias would work. Like eth0:0 or whatever.

aptitude install bridge-utils
brctl addbr br0
  • br0 could be anything like: whatever0
ip addr show
  • Just to see interfaces

You now need to add interfaces to the bridge

brctl addif br0 eth0 eth1

To make the bridge perm you need to edit /etc/network/interfaces

 /etc/network/interfaces 
Template error: are you trying to use the = sign? Visit Help:Template#Escape template-breaking characters for workarounds.

or something using ethernet aliases:

 /etc/network/interfaces 
Template error: are you trying to use the = sign? Visit Help:Template#Escape template-breaking characters for workarounds.

You then could edit /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp but since the networking scripts included with xen may be phased out at any moment you should just configure the domu's to use the bridge. xen-tools will do this if you configure it to. You will need a vif line in the domU config to use the bridge:

vif = ['mac=00:00:00:00:00:00,bridge=xenbr0]
 /etc/xen-tools/xen-tools.conf 
Template error: are you trying to use the = sign? Visit Help:Template#Escape template-breaking characters for workarounds.

Notes

bridge_stp off		# disable Spanning Tree Protocol
bridge_waitport 0	# no delay before a port becomes available
bridge_fd 0		# no forwarding delay

Install DomU xen-tools

To configure xen-tools, you can edit /etc/xen-tools/xen-tools.conf which contains default values that the xen-create-image script will use. The xen-create-image(8) manual page contains information on the available options.

xen-create-image --hostname <hostname> --ip <ip> --vcpus 2 --pygrub --dist <lenny|squeeze|maverick|whatever>

Install DomU Debian Installer

VPS Serving to Customers

http://vimeo.com/38636349

Notes

HyperVM Free and looks like a great product. Does not work with CentOS 6 because CentOS dropped Xen?
  • Xen XCP
  • OpenVZ
  • Virtuzzo
  • ProxMox
  • SolusVM
  • vePortal


Most of these can integrate with a billing platform.

  • lxcenter.org

kloxo