Monthly Archives: May 2009

Never use XFS with Xen on Centos. It will crash Dom0.

This is one of those week or so long learning experiences that you must go through whenever exploring a new technology. I installed Centos 5.3 and Xen on a hot new piece of hardware with the intention of runnig paravirtualized … Continue reading

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Manually controlling bridge networking on Xen

I followed this great article: http://henning.schmiedehausen.org/wingnut-diaries/archives/86

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Installing a simple paravirtualized Centos DomU on Centos

A simple challenge: Install a stock Centos 5.3 Xen host/Dom0 and a paravirtualized Centos 5.3 guest/DomU. After weeks of frustration, detailed in another post, I got this going with the help of this guide: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Xen/InstallingCentOSDomU

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