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4 Updating SLE 10 Systems to SLE 11 29
4.1 Boot Loader Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Part II Advanced Configurations 31
5 Managing a Virtualization Environment 33
5.1 Virtual Machine Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
5.2 Controlling the Host by Modifying Xend Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
5.3 Configuring a Virtual Machine by Modifying its Xend Settings . . . . . . 37
5.4
The
xm
Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
5.5 Automatic Starting of Domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
5.6 Migrating Xen VM Guest Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
6 Virtual Networking 45
6.1 Virtual Bridges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
6.2 Network Devices for Guest Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
6.3 Host Based Routing in Xen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
6.4 Creating a Masqueraded Network Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
6.5 Special Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
7 Block Devices in Xen 59
7.1 Mapping Physical Storage to Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
7.2 File-Backed Virtual Disks and Loopback Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
7.3 Resizing Block Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
8 Virtualization: Configuration Options and Settings 63
8.1 Virtual CD Readers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
8.2 Remote Access Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
8.3 VNC Viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
8.4 Virtual Keyboards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
8.5 Using PVUSB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
8.6 Using Lock Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
8.7 HVM Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Part III Administration and Best Practices 77
9 Administration Tasks 79
9.1 The Boot Loader Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79