INSTALLING A GUEST DOMAIN (“DOMU”)
Now that the Xen hypervisor/Dom0 virtual machine is configured and up and running, it’s time to configure and create a DomU. Just like we did in the Debian 9 tutorial, we will now install and use the xen-tools package to automate the steps involved in creating a paravirtualized (“PV”) DomU.
INSTALL DEBIAN PACKAGE XEN-TOOLS
Use apt-get to update the Xen hypervisor/Dom0 package index files, and upgrade all currently installed packages. As root run the following command:
# apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
Next, use apt-get to install the xen-tools package from the Debian stretch repository, which is currently shipping xen-tools version 4.8-1. Run the following command as root:
# apt-get install xen-tools
SET UP NEW PARTITION AND VOLUME GROUP
Before we use xen-tools to create a new DomU, we need to create a LVM volume group which will be used to provision disk space for new virtual machines. In this step, we assume Dom0 was installed on the /dev/sda1 partition of your primary disk drive, and that all other /dev/sda drive space is empty. Continue reading “Creating a XEN guest and tidbids in CLI” »