Chapter 2. GETTING STARTED

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Fascinating though the theoretical underpinnings and implementation details of Xen are, we should probably move on to working directly with Xen for a bit of practice. There is, after all, no substitute for experience.

So! Welcome to Xen. This chapter is an easy quick start aimed at gently introducing Xen to one of your machines. We will hold your hand and not let it go.

Because this is a detailed walk-through, we're going to give focused, specific instructions, deviating from our normal policy of being vague and distro-agnostic. For the purposes of this chapter, we'll assume you're installing CentOS 5.x with the server

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