Linux Tutorials on the topic “virtualization”
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Back Up LVM XEN Guest Containing LVs
Author: chriscowley •
Tags: backup, virtualization, xen •
Comments: 4 Back Up LVM XEN Guest Containing LVs In my day-job all our Linux boxes (bar 3) are Xen VMs. I wanted a way to take a backup of these with out the risk of the files changing underneath. For performance reasons I am running all of them on Logical Volumes.Within these VMs the DomU OS is once again using LVM for various reasons. This does create some headaches for taking the backup.
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KVM & OpenVZ Virtualization And Cloud Computing With Proxmox VE
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: control panels, kvm, openvz, virtualization • Comments: 5KVM & OpenVZ Virtualization And Cloud Computing With Proxmox VE Proxmox VE (virtual environment) is a distribution based on Debian Etch (x86_64); it provides an OpenSource virtualization platform for running virtual machines (OpenVZ and KVM) and comes with a powerful, web-based control panel (it includes a web-based graphical console that you can use to connect to the virtual machines). With Proxmox VE, you can even create a cluster of virtualization hosts and create/control virtual machines on remote hosts from the control panel. Proxmox VE also supports live migration of virtual machines from one host to the other. This guide shows how you can use Proxmox VE to control KVM and OpenVZ virtual machines and how to create a small computing cloud with it.
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Installing Xen 3.3 With Kernel 2.6.27 On Ubuntu 8.10 (x86_64)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: ubuntu, virtualization, xen •
Comments: 18 Installing Xen 3.3 With Kernel 2.6.27 On Ubuntu 8.10 (x86_64) This tutorial shows how you can install Xen 3.3 on an Ubuntu 8.10 host (dom0). Xen 3.3 is available from the Ubuntu 8.10 repositories, but the Ubuntu 8.10 kernels (2.6.27-x) are domU kernels, i.e., they work for Xen guests (domU), but not for the host (dom0). Therefore we need to build our own dom0 kernel. This guide explains how to do this with a 2.6.27 kernel.
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Installing And Using OpenVZ On Debian Lenny (AMD64)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: debian, openvz, virtualization •
Comments: 4 Installing And Using OpenVZ On Debian Lenny (AMD64) In this HowTo I will describe how to prepare a Debian Lenny server for OpenVZ. With OpenVZ you can create multiple Virtual Private Servers (VPS) on the same hardware, similar to Xen and the Linux Vserver project. OpenVZ is the open-source branch of Virtuozzo, a commercial virtualization solution used by many providers that offer virtual servers. The OpenVZ kernel patch is licensed under the GPL license, and the user-level tools are under the QPL license.
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How To Run Fully-Virtualized Guests (HVM) With Xen 3.2 On Debian Lenny (x86_64)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: debian, virtualization, xen •
Comments: 10 How To Run Fully-Virtualized Guests (HVM) With Xen 3.2 On Debian Lenny (x86_64) This guide explains how you can set up fully-virtualized guests (HVM) with Xen 3.2 on a Debian Lenny x86_64 host system. HVM stands for HardwareVirtualMachine; to set up such guests, you need a CPU that supports hardware virtualization (Intel VT or AMD-V). Hardware virtualization allows you to install unmodified guest systems (in contrast to paravirtualization where the guest kernel needs to be modified); that way you cannot only virtualize OpenSource operating systems like Linux and BSD, but also closed-source operating systems like Windows where you cannot modify the kernel.
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Installing KVM Guests With virt-install On Ubuntu 8.10 Server
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: kvm, ubuntu, virtualization •
Comments: 0 Installing KVM Guests With virt-install On Ubuntu 8.10 Server Unlike virt-manager, virt-install is a command line tool that allows you to create KVM guests on a headless server. You may ask yourself: "But I can use vmbuilder to do this, why do I need virt-install?" The difference between virt-install and vmbuilder is that vmbuilder is for creating Ubuntu-based guests, whereas virt-install lets you install all kinds of operating systems (e.g. Linux, Windows, Solaris, FreeBSD, OpenBSD) and distributions in a guest, just like virt-manager. This article shows how you can use it on an Ubuntu 8.10 KVM server.
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Managing OpenVZ With The WebVZ Control Panel On Debian Lenny
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: debian, openvz, virtualization •
Comments: 1 Managing OpenVZ With The WebVZ Control Panel On Debian Lenny This guide explains how you can install WebVZ on a Debian Lenny OpenVZ host. WebVZ is a light web-based control panel for OpenVZ. It has its own web server (Webrick) and database engine (SQLITE 3).
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Virtualization With KVM On A Debian Lenny Server
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: debian, kvm, virtualization •
Comments: 6 Virtualization With KVM On A Debian Lenny Server This guide explains how you can install and use KVM for creating and running virtual machines on a Debian Lenny server. I will show how to create image-based virtual machines and also virtual machines that use a logical volume (LVM). KVM is short for Kernel-based Virtual Machine and makes use of hardware virtualization, i.e., you need a CPU that supports hardware virtualization, e.g. Intel VT or AMD-V.
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How To Install VMware Server 1.0.x On An Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: desktop, ubuntu, virtualization, vmware •
Comments: 10 How To Install VMware Server 1.0.x On An Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install VMware Server 1.0.x (1.0.8 at the time of this writing) on an Ubuntu 8.10 desktop system. This is for those who prefer VMware Server 1.0.x over VMware Server 2.
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How To Convert A Xen Virtual Machine To VMware
Author: mannes • Tags: virtualization, vmware, xen • Comments: 1How To Convert A Xen Virtual Machine To VMware This article explains how you can convert a Xen guest to a VMware guest. The steps descibed here assume advanced VMware and Xen knowledge.
