Xen Solutions
The Xen solutions including installing and configuring Dom0 and DomU are summarized here. This post will be updated when our solution changes. Only the latest tested stable solutions are listed here.
LVM volumes as backing for DomU’s file system is an appealing solution to Xen VBD. LVM volumes can dynamically grow/shrink and snapshot. These features make it simple and fast to duplicate DomU and adding storage to DomU. LVM backed DomU is recommended.
Dom0 installation and configuration
Stable Dom0 solution:
Setting up Stable Xen Dom0 with Fedora: Xen 3.4.3 with Xenified Linux Kernel 2.6.32.13 in Fedora 12
DomU installation and configuration
LVM backed Xen DomU is quite stable with high performance that uses unmodified Fedora pv_ops kernel:
Setting Up LVM Backed Xen DomU
Setting Up Ubuntu DomU on Xen: Use Ubuntu 10.10 on Fedora Xen Dom0
Dom0 management
Dom0′s CPU and memory configuration advises:
Managing Xen Dom0′s CPU and Memory
DomU management
Duplicating LVM Backed Xen DomU
Duplicating and Backing Up LVM Backed Xen DomU from a Remote Server
Create and manage virtual machines on Xen
How to Duplicate Xen DomU Virtual Machines
Automatically backing up Xen File-backed DomU
Unified Xen DomU configuration file
LVM with Xen
A summary of tutorials related to Xen and LVM:
Problems
Some problems that may happen and their solution:
Tags: Client config, Fedora, performance, Server config, Tutorial, xen
