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• This page is for the HPC0 project 0x1 System Status Documentation.

• In order to start you have to login to the vmserver to create your vm
• Once logged in go to /etc/xen
• Run the following command (changing $HOSTNAME to whatever you want to call it)

 # xen-create-image --hostname $HOSTNAME --pygrub --dist wheezy 

• It takes a while (even longer if you forgot to set up the mirror)
• If you want to see what xen does while creating your image
• Go to /var/log/xen-tools and run

 tail -f $HOSTNAME.log 

• After putting in the default password now we have to change DNS and DHCP
• DNS is in /var/named/master, you have to edit both files
• In the 10.80.3 file I changed

 102  IN  PTR  vm02.projects.lan. 

• to

 102  IN  PTR  vm-102.projects.lan. 

• and in the projects.lan I changed

 vm02  IN  A 10.80.3.102 

• to

 vm-102  IN  A 10.80.3.102 

• Now onto DCHP, this is the file /etc/dhcpd.conf
• Under my own subgroup I added a few lines

 host vm102.projects.lan {
    hardware ethernet $ETHERNET;
    fixed-address vm-102.projects.lan;
 }

• If your to lazy (like me) to boot up your VM just to type ifconfig
• On the vmserver open up the file /etc/xen/$HOSTNAME.cfg and look for the networking subgroup
• After you type everything correctly run

 # confupdate dns
 # confupdate dhcp