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====Inception====
OS within an OS!
====Objectives====
  - Setup a fully functional guest operating system within the host system.
  - grasp fundamentals of the Xen virtualization software. 


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

====Attributes====
Linux VM Server install, One star 
====Procedure====
  - Netboot 32/64 bit Debian Lenny on your host system.
  - Go through the installation. When you're prompted to select your software mirrors select: "choose your own mirror"
  - For our lab46 installation of the host system we'll load the internal mirror, for mirror we're going to type: mirror
  - Set your user name and default password.
  - 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:
<cli>
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
</cli>
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.

  - Now we need to update Aptitude. At the prompt type: "aptitude update" when the update completes type: "aptitude upgrade"
  - 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"
  - Grab your appropriate xen configuration files for your system: "aptitude install '...' " xen-tools & ssh-server

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