Questions about Xen

[Tortanick]

I read http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_xe..._debian_ubuntu and it seems great however I am left with three questions.

1) I'd like to use a seprate /home, /var /var/spool as well as the root partiton, do I just ammend disk= to include some extra images then later modify Fstab or do I do something to the xen config file?

2) After forwarding all the relevent ports to the virtual servers, how can I block everything except updates via apt from reaching Dom0

3) How should I devide my ram between
Dom0: basic debian install modified to include xen
Vm01: Mail server, with squirrell mail and monit
Vm02: PureFTPD and monit
Vm03: another Pure-Ftpd also with monit, (traffic from the net will be redirected to non-standard ports at the firewall level)

I have 256 meg of ram, if that not enough I'll drop Vm03

[falko]

Originally Posted by Tortanick

1) I'd like to use a seprate /home, /var /var/spool as well as the root partiton, do I just ammend disk= to include some extra images then later modify Fstab or do I do something to the xen config file?

Create an extra image for each partition and add it to the vm's Xen config file.

Originally Posted by Tortanick

2) After forwarding all the relevent ports to the virtual servers, how can I block everything except updates via apt from reaching Dom0

I'd just close down all services on dom0 except for SSH.

Originally Posted by Tortanick

3) How should I devide my ram between
Dom0: basic debian install modified to include xen
Vm01: Mail server, with squirrell mail and monit
Vm02: PureFTPD and monit
Vm03: another Pure-Ftpd also with monit, (traffic from the net will be redirected to non-standard ports at the firewall level)

I have 256 meg of ram, if that not enough I'll drop Vm03

I think you have to find this out by trying. Try to run dom0 with just 32MB.

[Tortanick]

Originally Posted by falko

Create an extra image for each partition and add it to the vm's Xen config file.

Um, that dosn't awnser the question, to mount partions do I SSH to the virtual machine and edit Fstab, or do I edit the Xen config file?

Originally Posted by falko

I'd just close down all services on dom0 except for SSH.

If you're sure ok, I thought I'd have to routenly get the latest updates.

Originally Posted by falko

I think you have to find this out by trying. Try to run dom0 with just 32MB.

Ok, I'll try. What would you recomend to generate a log of system resorse useage, preffrably for text editors not web browsers.
Also is there any rules to assigning ram? multiple of 32 only? only 32,64,128...

[falko]

Originally Posted by Tortanick

Um, that dosn't awnser the question, to mount partions do I SSH to the virtual machine and edit Fstab, or do I edit the Xen config file?

Both. http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_xe...bian_ubuntu_p4 and http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_xe...bian_ubuntu_p5 should give you the idea.

Originally Posted by Tortanick

Ok, I'll try. What would you recomend to generate a log of system resorse useage, preffrably for text editors not web browsers.

You could create a cron job that writes the output of

uptime

to a text files every 5 minutes or so.
If you want something for your browser, have a look here: http://www.howtoforge.com/server_monitoring_monit_munin

Originally Posted by Tortanick

Also is there any rules to assigning ram? multiple of 32 only? only 32,64,128...

It's totally up to you.

[Tortanick]

thanks for all the help