Questions related to Xen Project, which creates a hypervisor or Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM). A hypervisor allows one machine to run multiple virtual guest operating systems simultaneously.
Questions tagged [xen]
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What is the "/dev/xvda1" device?
When I type mount on the root of my Ubuntu system I get the output
/dev/xvdal on / type ext4 (rw,noatime)
I want to know what is the meaning of /dev/xvdal in this?
Gaurav Agarwal
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How do I set up a KVM/NVidia Passthrough virtual machine for gaming?
I've seen a guide or two that seems to be replicated around on the internet on setting up KVM to use passthrough for Nvidia. It seems to require 2 video cards.
Is it possible to do it with 1 video card? I'm trying to see if it's possible to have a…
mlw4428
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Why is /etc/network/interfaces ignored?
I've been searching the internet for the last 2 hours and can't seem to find a solution to the following problem.
I just installed Xen in a fresh Xubuntu 13.04 and in order to setup the networking, I had to remove network_manager. So, all network…
AVH
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Bridging: Losing WLAN network connection with 4addr on option - Why?
Question:
For use with my Xen VM, I need to create a virtual network interface (vif) that is bridged to wlan0.
If in /etc/network/interfaces I add
auto xenbr0
iface xenbr0 inet dhcp
And then later do
brctl addif xenbr0 wlan0
I get this…
WitchCraft
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How to install Xen-Tools on Ubuntu Server LTS 16.04 with Xenserver 7?
I tried several methods.
sudo apt-get install xen-tools is installing at least two packages but cannot configure / start them for unknown reason.
Source
Using the iso provided by Xencenter (developer help page)
mount /dev/xvdd /mnt
End up this…
Binary
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How do I use Xen hypervisor?
I am interested in trying out Xen;
What packages do I need to install?
How do I set up a DomU instance?
Oxwivi
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Creating block devices for openstack deployment using MAAS and juju (nova-volume deployment)
I'm currently trying to get a openstack deployment working by using MAAS with 9 nodes and juju. To do this I found this guide, working with ubuntu 12.04 LTS and followed it as good as I can.
After a vigorous amount of trial and error I finally got…
Tom Van Hoof
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Current protocol for installing Xen with as a Dom0?
I tried to install Xen a few weeks ago with Ubuntu 11.10 as the Dom0. At the time, I encountered too many problems to list here. And an internet search revealed that others were having similar problems. Although my searches revealed a few…
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boot XEN under UEFI-only BIOS
Is there a way to get XEN 4.4 booting from UEFI mode BIOS? My AMD64bit laptop does not support direct CSM/legacy boots.
A nasty workaround has been to boot from a specially made USB pendrive with grub-efi-amd64-signed , which has proven…
Marcos
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Is the "linux-firmware" package actually required on a XEN VPS?
This package is half a gigabyte so I'd like to determine if it's truly needed.
I'm having trouble understanding why it would actually be required on a VPS, and no other packages depend on it, however, I'm still worried because if removing it somehow…
Displayname71
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Why can't I boot into xen?
I started out with a fresh install of Ubuntu 14.04 server set up on a 10GB LVM partition. The only other thing I did was to then install the xen-hypervisor:
sudo apt-get install xen-hypervisor-amd64
I double checked that my hardware could support…
ubomb
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Can Ubuntu JeOS work with Xen?
Can I install Ubuntu as Minimal Virtual Install (formarly called Ubuntu JeOS1) on Xen hypervisor or not?
Does it only support KVM and VMware?
1. Ubuntu JeOS a version of Ubuntu that can be installed with the Server CD selecting "Minimal virtual…
user189942
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How do I set up a xen bridge?
I have been reading various pages on how to set up the network for xen. Unfortunately, none of them actually have a full example config. They clearly show what the xenbr0 section should look like, but not how you should change the eth0 after…
Programster
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I want to install Xen to run Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows 7 at the same time but I can't find any good tutorials
I'm wanting to use Xen Hypervisor to be able to run both Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows 7 at the same time using virtualization. I can find plenty of XCP tutorials but I'm not looking to install the cloud stack, I just want the server confined to my…
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Which is best to use on a HEADLESS Server that is going to be use as virtualization host? KVM / XEN / QEMU?
Okay, The main purpose is to learn about virtualization and play around with it. However, I have a problem of determining which is best for a headless server. I want to run several Linux distributions as well as Windows guests.
On a Side Note: This…
nobody
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