Archive for December 31st, 2009

Debian domU on CentOS 5.4 Dom0 using debootstrap

I’m hoping to essentially follow this: bderzhavets.wordpress.com/2009/05/02/debootstrap-ubuntu-jaunty-pv-domu-at-xen-331-f10-dom0-kernel-2630-rc3-tip/ Essentially, create LVs and format them (look at the previous posts for the how to), and have debootstrap installed on the CentOS host. Mount the LV in which you’re going to install Debian on by running mount <LV location> <mount location>. I did mount /dev/mapper/debian /mnt/debian. The command […]

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Ubuntu 9.10 domU on CentOS 5.4 Dom0 using debootstrap

I’m hoping to essentially follow this: help.ubuntu.com/9.10/installation-guide/i386/linux-upgrade.html and this: ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=4892417&postcount=2 Essentially, create LVs and format them (look at the previous posts for the how to), and have debootstrap installed on the CentOS host. Mount the LV in which you’re going to install Ubuntu on by running mount <LV location> <mount location>. I did mount /dev/domU/ubuntu […]

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Formatting LVs for dom0 guests

Installing paravirtualized guests is interesting in the sense that you’re essentially copying over a minimal system, then telling it to install itself. Supposed to be fun. XD === Now, after setting up the logical volumes for the domU guest, you have to setup the filesystem. Which isn’t as hard as it sounds, all the information […]

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LVM management for guests

Current setup on my test server is 1 20GB drive for all the dom0 stuff, and a larger drive which will hold all the domU images. There will be 2 images for each system – 1 20GB partition which will be mounted as / and 1 512MB partition which will be used as swap. Because […]

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