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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat Help using XEN in CentOS 5.9 Post 302767317 by mccabec123 on Wednesday 6th of February 2013 04:09:46 PM

02-06-2013

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Help using XEN in CentOS 5.9

Hey guys, I've been straddling with this issue for quite some time now and I'm getting absolutely nowhere with it. It took me a long time to get XEN up and running on my server. We only use SSH to manipulate our servers, but we finally got it up and running. Now I'm at the point of actually attempting to create the servers. But my problem is, there doesn't seem to be any good documentation out there with a step by step guide on setting up Virtual Servers using XEN on CentOS 5.9, I can find various bits and bobs, but nothing solid to go on. I feel like I'm just guessing half of the time.

I'm trying to create VPS's with CentOS installed on them and some default folders etc. but I don't know how to create the initial image and then how to use it. I attempted to create the image using 'xen-image-create' with various parameters. The VPS sets up and the domain is listed, but I can't connect to it, which leads me to believe that the image is not working correctly. I just really need somebody to go over the steps for me, it'd be a great help and I'd really appreciate it, I'm trying to set up a hosting company with my friend, and we're trying to do it properly rather than using CGroup's and all of that terrible stuff to create servers. We want, full dedicated VPS's for our clients, we want to be a very permium hosting company, obviously we need to learn more, but there doesn't seem to be many companies out there that are willing to do that.

Back to my original topic, if somebody could just go over all of the steps to create a XEN VPS then that would be really really helpful. Before we were using the 'xm' command to create and administrate the servers, I assume this is Xen Management.

If you need any documents then I will provide, just not sure which documents you'll need to know about. Also our dedicated server is running CentOS 5.9 and we are trying to install CentOS onto the VPS's.

Thanks a lot guys, really appreciate this.

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xen-resize-guest

XEN-RESIZE-GUEST(8)					 Perl Programmers Reference Guide				       XEN-RESIZE-GUEST(8)

NAME

       xen-resize-guest - Resize a loopback or LVM based xen guest.

SYNOPSIS

	 xen-resize-guest [options]

	 Help Options:
	  --help     Show help information.
	  --manual   Read the manual for this script.
	  --version  Show the version information and exit.
	  --verbose  Show diagnostic output.

	 General Options:
	  --add      Specify the amount of space to add, e.g. --add=1gb
	  --dir      Specify the path to the loopback image root.
	  --force    Force the resize to happen without a last-chance delay.
	  --hostname Specify the hostname of the guest to resize.

OPTIONS

       --add Specify the amount of storage to add to the primary disk.
       --dir Specify the directory where the loopback files are based.
       --force Don't pause for 10 seconds prior to commencing.
       --help Show help information.
       --hostname Specify the hostname to delete.
       --lvm Specify the volume group to use.
       --manual Read the manual for this script.
       --version Show the version number and exit.

DESCRIPTION

	 This tool will ease the resizing of Xen guests, whether they are based
	upon loopback files or LVM partitions.

	 Whilst the process of resizing a guest is pretty simple it can be fiddly
	to do the steps correctly in the right order:

       1.  Shutdown the guest.	2.  Unmount the volume, if it is mounted.  3.  Add to the space.  4.  Check the filesystem.  5.  Resize the
       filesystem.  6.	Restart the guest.

	 More than once I've heard of users making mistakes and breaking their
	filesystems; hence this tool.

AUTHORS

	Steve Kemp, http://www.steve.org.uk/
	Axel Beckert, http://noone.org/abe/

LICENSE

       Copyright (c) 2005-2009 by Steve Kemp, (c) 2010 by The Xen-Tools Development Team. All rights reserved.

       This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.  The LICENSE file contains the
       full text of the license.

4.3.1								    2012-06-30						       XEN-RESIZE-GUEST(8)