In most cases they
provide easy to install binary packages in the packaging format used by the specific
distributions. This is the easiest and quickest way to get up and running with Xen. In
this book we will use Fedora Core 6 from Red Hat as our base operating system and
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will run other operating systems in virtual machines inside it. The package manager
used by Fedora is named yum. If you are new to yum and have not used it before,
please refer to the Fedora yum manual at http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/yum/
en/. We will use yum to install Xen from the pre-built packages provided by Red Hat.
It will install the Xen kernel used by Domain0, the libraries, Python modules, and
user space tools used for interacting with Xen.
Time for Action??”Installing Xen with yum
yum makes installing Xen in your Fedora Core 6 system a breeze. The following
steps are needed to get Xen running:
1. Install the Xen kernel and tools by running the following command:
yum install kernel-xen xen
This will download and install the following packages and
their dependencies:
kernel-xen: Contains the Xen enabled kernel for both the host
and guest operating systems as well as the hypervisor.
xen: Contains the user-space tools for interacting with
the hypervisor.
bridge-utils: Utilities for configuring the Ethernet bridge that
is used for connecting multiple Ethernet devices together.
libvirt: A C library that provides an API to use the
Xen framework.
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