Virtualization
Tutorials on virtualization system and software, such as Xen.
Please refer to
Xen solution
for the latest stable Xen Dom0 solution.
How to set up Xen Dom0 with Xenified Linux kernel in Fedora 12 will be introduced in this post. We use ... read more »
The performance of Xen’s Dom0 is important for the overall system. The disk and network drivers are running on Dom0. I/O intensive guests’ workloads may consume lots Dom0′s CPU cycles. ... read more »
Please refer to
Xen solution
for the latest stable Xen Dom0 solution.
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In this post, the detailed tutorial for setting up Xen 3.4.1 dom0 on top of Fedora 12 with kernel 2.6.29 ... read more »
Previously, we create a configuration file for each DomU virtual machines in our cluster. Most of the content in these configuration files is the same. The differences are only the ... read more »
A script for backing up file-backed Xen DomU is introduced in this post. This script can be changed to similar platform.
In our cluster, virtual machines are stored under /lhome/xen/. Virtual ... read more »
I have done some I/O performance benchmark test of Xen DomU. For easier management, our DomU VMs are all using file-backed VBDs. Previously, our VMs are using Loopback-mounted file-backed VBDs. ... read more »
Please refer to here for the platform of this test.
I have done some simple performance test on DomU and Dom0 and compare with the performance on physical machines. These test ... read more »
Assumption:
There are VBD based Xen DomU virtual machines stored under /lhome/xen/vm-f11-sample/. There are two files under vm-f11-sample: vm0-f11.run (The configuration file) and vmdisk0 (The virtual disk).
Now we want to duplicate ... read more »
Please refer to
Xen solution
for the latest stable Xen Dom0 solution.
In this post, the detailed tutorial of seting up Xen 3.4.1 dom0 on top of Fedora 11 with kernel 2.6.29 will ... read more »