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jailtime.org provides complete Xen images for several operating systems.
The slackware.11-0.21220.img.tar.bz2 file that we have downloaded contains
the following:
Slackware.11-0.img (the slackware root file system image)
Slackware.11-0.xen2.cfg (configuration for Xen 2)
Slackware.11-0.xen3.cfg (configuration for Xen 3)
Slackware.11-0.swap (swap file)
The images contain everything we need, so all we have to do is ensure that the
configuration matches what we want and create the guest domain.
Summary
In this chapter we created several different virtual machines or domUs that run
different operating systems. We installed each of these domUs using different
installation methods, so we could get a feel for the various different ways of creating
guest domains in Xen.
We created an Ubuntu Feisty domU using the debootstrap tool for
bootstrapping an Ubuntu install from scratch.
We created a NetBSD domain using an install image and the kernel image
provided as a part of the NetBSD distribution.
We created a CentOS 4.4 server guest domain using qemu to install to a
disk image, mounted the partitions from that disk image onto file system
directories and used those directories to boot our CentOS 4.4 server
from Xen.
We used a readily available Xen domU image from jailtime to create a
Slackware domain.
In the next chapter, we will explore the Xen management tools, xm and xend.
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Managing Xen
We successfully created several Xen guest domains in the last chapter.
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