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Installing Xen On An Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) Server From The Ubuntu Repositories This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install Xen on an Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon (Ubuntu 7.10) server system (i386). You can find all the software used here in the Ubuntu repositories, so no external files or compilation are needed.
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rpmstrap is presently broken on Gutsy, and you will need to always issue rpmstrap commands with "bash" explicitly called. Otherwise it will fail with obscure shell complaints.
in short: instead of "rpmstrap ..." use "bash `which rpmstrap` ..."
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One more step required to use the xm console facility with versions of xen-hypervisor etc.
packages circa March 2008: need to add this to /etc/xen/server.cfg:
extra = 'xencons=tty'
This passes a kernel command line option that causes the Xen console to work with the
xm console command (as described in this most excellent document).
Otherwise the Xen guest console appears to go to a virtual framebuffer (vfb) and this document
does not discuss how to view that (probably needs a GUI environment).