Xen Virtualization
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
What This Book Covers
Conventions
Reader Feedback
Customer Support
Introduction
What is Xen?
Xen Terminologies
Summary
Running Xen
Installing Xen from Binary Packages
Installing Xen from Source
Creating Virtual Machines
A Plan for Creating Xen Domains
Physical Address Extension
Compiling a domU Kernel
Xen Domain Memory
Pygrub
Ubuntu Feisty
NetBSD
CentOS
Slackware
Managing Xen
Xen Domain Configuration Files
Xen Management User Interface—xm
XenMan—Installing and Running
Virtual Machine Manager
Networking
Bridged Networking
Routed Networking
Virtual Local Network with Network Address Translation
Storage
Files
NFS
Logical Volume Management
Advanced Storage Options
Encryption
Device Mapper-Based Encryption
Device Mapper-Based Encryption Using LUKS
Migration
Migration Requirements
Saving and Restoring a Domain
Live Migration
Xen Future
Libvirt
Vmcasting