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OS within an OS!

1. Setup a fully functional guest operating system within the host system.
2. grasp fundamentals of the Xen virtualization software.

This is a base project and therefore one only needs a common understanding of his surroundings and an open mind.

Virtualization intals a host computer running one or many guest operating systems at any given time. Today our computers have far more processing capability then a short time ago, because of this we now have the ability to run several virtualized operating systems within one PC.

Virtualization is environmentally safe and economically sustainable.

Linux VM Server install, One star

1. Netboot 32/64 bit Debian Lenny on your host system.
2. Go through the installation. When you're prompted to select your software mirrors select: “choose your own mirror”
3. For our lab46 installation of the host system we'll load the internal mirror, for mirror we're going to type: mirror
4. Set your user name and default password.
5. Once your system is online you're going to remove your user account. To do this type; “userdel”

Before we go on we must grab a proper package manager within lab46 to do this follow these commands:

vmserver03:# cd /etc/apt
vmserver03:/etc/apt# rm sources.list
vmserver03:/etc/apt# wget web.lair.lan/files/student/sources.list sources.list
vmserver03:/etc/apt# aptitude install nano
vmserver03:/etc/apt# nano sources.list

We're going to change all our sources to lenny in this case so any reference of “squeeze” over-wright with “lenny” '^x' to save when you're done.

1. Now we need to update Aptitude. At the prompt type: “aptitude update” when the update completes type: “aptitude upgrade”
2. Aptitude is now up to date. We're now going to go out and grab our necessary files for Xen vm server install. At the prompt type: “ aptitude search xen”
3. Grab your appropriate xen configuration files for your system: “aptitude install '…' ” xen-tools & ssh-server