Installation Guide
Table Of Contents
- XenServer Virtual Machine Installation Guide
- Table of Contents
- Chapter 1. About this document
- Chapter 2. Creating VMs
- Chapter 3. Installing Windows VMs
- Chapter 4. Installing Linux VMs
- Installing Debian Etch
- Installing Debian Lenny
- Installing Red Hat, CentOS, and Oracle Linux from vendor media
- Installing Linux from a network installation server to a VM
- Physical-to-Virtual Installation of a Linux VM
- Installing the Linux guest agent
- Preparing to clone a Linux VM
- Time handling in Linux VMs
- Configuring VNC for VMs
- Release Notes
- Chapter 5. Updating VMs
- Appendix A. Creating ISO images
- Appendix B. Setting Up a Red Hat Installation Server
- Appendix C. Troubleshooting VM problems
- Index
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CentOS 4 ...................................................................................................... 32
CentOS 5 ...................................................................................................... 32
Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 ............................................................................... 32
SUSE Enterprise Linux 9 ................................................................................ 33
SUSE Enterprise Linux 10 SP1 ...................................................................... 33
SUSE Enterprise Linux 11 .............................................................................. 33
5. Updating VMs ............................................................................................................ 34
Updating Windows operating systems ..................................................................... 34
Updating PV drivers for Windows VMs .................................................................... 34
Updating Linux kernels and guest utilities ................................................................ 35
A. Creating ISO images ................................................................................................. 36
B. Setting Up a Red Hat Installation Server ..................................................................... 37
Copying installation media ...................................................................................... 37
Enable remote access ............................................................................................ 37
NFS .............................................................................................................. 37
FTP ............................................................................................................... 38
HTTP ............................................................................................................ 38
C. Troubleshooting VM problems .................................................................................... 39
VM crashes ........................................................................................................... 39
Controlling Linux VM Crashdump Behaviour .................................................... 39
Controlling Windows VM Crashdump Behaviour ............................................... 40
Troubleshooting boot problems on Linux VMs .......................................................... 40
Index ............................................................................................................................. 41