Xen 64bit Install

[Chad]

I'd like to install Xen on my Intel Xeon box, but this how to is 2 years old and for 32bit version

http://www.howtoforge.com/centos_5.0_xen

Is there a more up to date how-to for Xen on 64bit Centos 5?

Also, any open source web gui for Xen available at this time?

Thank you.

[Flash]

http://www.howtoforge.org/paravirtua...tos-5.3-x86_64

[Chad]

Thanks, would appreciate if someone can answer my other questions.

[Chad]

I was playing around with this and installed Xen.

But I'm at a lost on this part:

[root@server047 ~]# virt-install
What is the name of your virtual machine? vm01
How much RAM should be allocated (in megabytes)? 256
What would you like to use as the disk (file path)? /vm/vm01.img
How large would you like the disk (/vm/vm01.img) to be (in gigabytes)? 4
Disk /vm/vm01.img is already in use by another guest!
Do you really want to use the disk (yes or no)? yes
Would you like to enable graphics support? (yes or no) no
What is the install location? http://wftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux.../5.3/os/x86_64


Starting install...
Retrieving file CentOS... | 1.5 MB 00:05
Retrieving file vmlinuz... | 1.9 MB 00:05
Retrieving file initrd.img... | 6.3 MB 00:07
ERROR: Domain named vm01 already exists!
[root@server047 ~]# rm -f /vm/vm01.img
[root@server047 ~]# xm destroy vm01
Error: Domain 'vm01' does not exist.
Usage: xm destroy <Domain>

Terminate a domain immediately.

[root@server047 ~]# xm list
Name ID Mem(MiB) VCPUs State Time(s)
Domain-0 0 1744 2 r----- 29.5

In the meantime, I created a new one called vm02

But I'm stuck at this screen. The "sending request for IP..." disappears and shows the default configure tcp/ip screen again.

[root@server047 ~]# /sbin/ip link
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: peth0: <BROADCAST,NOARP,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 100
link/ether fe:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop qlen 1000
link/ether 00:11:43:fd:97:9f brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
4: sit0: <NOARP> mtu 1480 qdisc noop
link/sit 0.0.0.0 brd 0.0.0.0
5: virbr0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue
link/ether 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
6: vif0.0: <BROADCAST,NOARP,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue
link/ether fe:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
7: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue
link/ether 00:11:43:fd:97:9e brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
8: vif0.1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop
link/ether fe:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
9: veth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop
link/ether 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
10: vif0.2: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop
link/ether fe:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
11: veth2: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop
link/ether 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
12: vif0.3: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop
link/ether fe:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
13: veth3: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop
link/ether 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
14: vif0.4: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop
link/ether fe:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
15: veth4: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop
link/ether 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
16: xenbr0: <BROADCAST,NOARP,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue
link/ether fe:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
18: vif2.0: <BROADCAST,NOARP,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 32
link/ether fe:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

[falko]

Do you have a working DHCP server in your network?

[Chad]

How would I check this?

All I know its a live dedicated server and I have 5 usable IPs (I did not assign them yet otherwise).

[Chad]

I tried this method too:

virt-install -x "ip=xxx.xxx.64.170 gateway=xxx.xxx.64.169 subnet=255.255.255.248"

Getting this error, even tried 3 different mirrors

http://i42.tinypic.com/wu5uvq.png

this is my /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 content

DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=static
IPADDR=xxx.xxx.64.170
NETMASK=255.255.255.248
ONBOOT=yes TYPE=Ethernet

[falko]

If the server is in a datacenter, there's probably no DHCP server. Choose "Manual configuration" in this case.

[Chad]

I tried manual too.

I tried this:

virt-install -x "ip=xxx.xxx.64.170 gateway=xxx.xxx.64.169 subnet=255.255.255.248 dns=64.16.220.161"

What is the install location? http://centos.digitalson.com/centos/5/os/x86_64

Then, on the conf tcp/ip screen, I get blank screen tinypic.com/r/10hitmo/5