It provides a wide variety
of options and is available on any Xen installation. However, it is restricted to
managing the Xen environment on which it is running.
virt-manager provides a simple graphical user interface for managing Xen domains,
but it is restricted to the current server. XenMan provides similar management
capabilities to the other two tools but also gives you the option to manage a remote
Xen instance. This is a killer feature and really helps administrators who are trying to
consolidate their various management responsibilities into a single dashboard.
Both XenMan and Virt-manager provide capabilities for provisioning Xen domains.
We will look at the topic of Xen provisioning in Chapter 8.
In this chapter we explored the following options for managing the Xen environment:
Xen manager (xm): A command line tool that is part of Xen.
XenMan: A graphical administration application that provides the ability to
manage both local and remote domains.
Virt-manager: A graphical application for managing the local
Xen environment.
In the next chapter, we are going to examine the networking options available when
using Xen.
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Networking
The guest domains we create need to connect with each other and the outside world.
Xen provides a couple of different networking options, which we will explore in
this chapter:
Bridged networking
Routed networking
Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) with Network Address Translation
(NAT)
It is possible to do more advanced networking configurations with Xen, but in this
chapter we will address the above three scenarios.
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