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1. About this document .................................................................................................... 1
Overview ................................................................................................................. 1
How this Guide relates to other documentation .......................................................... 1
2. Creating VMs .............................................................................................................. 2
Overview ................................................................................................................. 2
Virtual memory and disk size limits ........................................................................... 2
XenServer product family virtual device support ......................................................... 3
Physical to Virtual Conversion (P2V) ......................................................................... 4
General Guidelines for Virtualizing Physical Servers .......................................... 5
Cloning an existing VM ............................................................................................ 5
Importing an exported VM ........................................................................................ 6
Exporting a VM ................................................................................................ 6
Importing a VM ................................................................................................ 7
VM Block Devices ............................................................................................ 7
3. Installing Windows VMs ............................................................................................... 8
Making the ISO available to XenServer hosts ............................................................ 9
Copying ISOs to local storage .......................................................................... 9
Windows paravirtualized drivers .............................................................................. 10
Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) provider ................................... 10
Remote Desktop .................................................................................................... 11
Preparing to clone a Windows VM .......................................................................... 11
Time Handling in Windows VMs ............................................................................. 12
Release Notes ....................................................................................................... 12
General Windows Issues ................................................................................ 13
Windows 2003 Server .................................................................................... 13
Windows 2008 Server .................................................................................... 13
Windows XP SP3 .......................................................................................... 13
Windows 2000 Server .................................................................................... 13
Windows Vista ............................................................................................... 13
4. Installing Linux VMs ................................................................................................... 14
Installing Debian Etch ............................................................................................ 15
Installing Debian Lenny .......................................................................................... 15
Apt repositories and Lenny ............................................................................. 16
Installing Red Hat, CentOS, and Oracle Linux from vendor media ............................. 16
Installing Linux from a network installation server to a VM ........................................ 18
Physical-to-Virtual Installation of a Linux VM ............................................................ 19
Guest Installation Network .............................................................................. 19
Installing the Linux guest agent .............................................................................. 20
Preparing to clone a Linux VM ............................................................................... 21
Machine Name .............................................................................................. 21
IP address ..................................................................................................... 21
MAC address ................................................................................................. 21
Time handling in Linux VMs ................................................................................... 22
Configuring VNC for VMs ....................................................................................... 22
Enabling a graphical console on Red Hat, CentOS, or Oracle Linux VMs ........... 23
Setting up SLES-based VMs for VNC ............................................................. 25
Setting up Debian Etch VMs for VNC .............................................................. 28
Checking runlevels ......................................................................................... 28
Release Notes ....................................................................................................... 28
Debian Lenny 5.0 .......................................................................................... 28
Debian Etch 4.0 ............................................................................................. 29
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 ............................................................................ 29
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 ............................................................................ 29
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 ............................................................................ 31