After I got Xen installed on Ubuntu Server 8.04, I wanted to install FreeBSD 7.0, too. But this was in no regards as easy as installing Ubuntu Server 8.04 as a domU!
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Ubuntu Server 8.04 as domU
Mikkel Meyer Andersen |
August 4, 2008 at 10:23 (UTC) |
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Hetzner, network bridge, Ubuntu, Xen
Mikkel Meyer Andersen |
August 4, 2008 at 10:23 (UTC) |
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Hetzner, network bridge, Ubuntu, Xen If you have followed the guide in “Xen on Ubuntu Server 8.04 (Hardy Heron) with complex disk setup” or have an environment similar to that, please read on – if not please read on, too 
. Since my server is hosted at Hetzner, this guide will be based on that. I want to use network bridging.
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Aug
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Xen on Ubuntu Server 8.04 (Hardy Heron) with complex disk setup
Mikkel Meyer Andersen |
August 3, 2008 at 16:58 (UTC) |
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Hetzner, LVM, mdadm, raid, Ubuntu, Virtualization, Xen, xfs
Mikkel Meyer Andersen |
August 3, 2008 at 16:58 (UTC) |
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Hetzner, LVM, mdadm, raid, Ubuntu, Virtualization, Xen, xfs This is a tutorial about how to use Ubuntu Server 8.04 as dom0 (host) for Xen, i.e. how to install Xen on Ubuntu Server. In a later post I’ll show how to install domUs (guests). The whole setup is done with a rather complex disk configuration using both raid 1 (mirroring) and LVM. It requires some knowledge about Xen (e.g. I’ll not try to convince you to use Xen – I assume it’s already your plan and you had read of all the advantages it gives you ).
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Xen vs. VMware ESXi vs. VMware Server
Mikkel Meyer Andersen |
July 30, 2008 at 21:12 (UTC) |
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Ubuntu, VMware ESXi, VMware Workstation, Xen
Mikkel Meyer Andersen |
July 30, 2008 at 21:12 (UTC) |
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Ubuntu, VMware ESXi, VMware Workstation, Xen Yesterday I wrote an entry regarding ESXi. More precisely I described how to try VMware ESXi in VMware Workstation. My argument was on one side to try ESXi out (I’ve never installed nor tried it) and on the other side investigate whether it was a product I would use.
The case is that I have a server on which I want to run some sort of virtualization – I don’t think it’s appropriate to discuss why virtualization is a go (if you think so, search the web for articles regarding this subject – there are more than plenty discussing this matter). I need at least to host a web server and a mail server – and it would be great to be able to have some sort of playground, too. My mind’s almost made up in regards to the software for the web server and mail server: Ubuntu Server (or maybe FreeBSD – time will show ). But what about the virtualization software?
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