March 2007
Intermediate to advanced
304 pages
11h 12m
English
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Installing Xen on Fedora 5
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By now, you may be anxious to see how all of this works. So, let’s go through the
process of installing and configuring Xen and VMware and demonstrate how to vir-
tualize a server network.
Installing Xen on Fedora 5
In this section of the chapter, we’ll show you how to install Xen on a single machine
to manage two operating systems. As Xen makes its way into the standard Linux dis-
tributions, installation will become smoother. But for now, some manual labor is
needed.
We’re using Fedora Core 5 (FC5) as the Xen host operating system, since it supports
Xen 3.0 out of the box. Let’s ask yum (a package manager similar to Debian’s apt-get
or Red Hat’s up2date) about Xen:
# yum info xen
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up repositories
core [1/3]
updates [2/3]
extras [3/3]
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Available Packages
Name : xen
Arch : i386
Version: 3.0.2
Release: 3.FC5
Size : 1.4 M
Repo : updates
Summary: Xen is a virtual machine monitor
Description:
This package contains the Xen hypervisor and Xen tools, needed to
run virtual machines on x86 systems, together with the kernel-xen*
packages. Information on how to use Xen can be found at the Xen
project pages.
Virtualisation can be used to run multiple versions or multiple
Linux distributions on one system, or to test untrusted applications
in a sandboxed environment. Note that the Xen technology is still
in development, ...
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