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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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CLOUDSERVERS(1) 						   User Commands						   CLOUDSERVERS(1)

NAME

       cloudservers - Command-line interface to the Cloud Servers API.

SYNOPSIS

       cloudservers [ --username USERNAME ] [ --apikey APIKEY ] <subcommand>

DESCRIPTION

       cloudservers is a command line interface to the Rackspace Cloud Servers API.

COMMAND OVERVIEW

       cloudservers backup-schedule
	      Show or edit the backup schedule for a server.

       cloudservers backup-schedule-delete
	      Delete the backup schedule for a server.

       cloudservers boot
	      Boot a new server.

       cloudservers delete
	      Immediately shut down and delete a server.

       cloudservers flavor-list
	      Print a list of available 'flavors' (sizes of servers).

       cloudservers help
	      Display help about this program or one of its subcommands.

       cloudservers image-create
	      Create a new image by taking a snapshot of a running server.

       cloudservers image-delete
	      Delete an image.

       cloudservers image-list
	      Print a list of available images to boot from.

       cloudservers ip-share
	      Share an IP address from the given IP group onto a server.

       cloudservers ip-unshare
	      Stop sharing an given address with a server.

       cloudservers ipgroup-create
	      Create a new IP group.

       cloudservers ipgroup-delete
	      Delete an IP group.

       cloudservers ipgroup-list
	      Show IP groups.

       cloudservers ipgroup-show
	      Show details about a particular IP group.

       cloudservers list
	      List active servers.

       cloudservers reboot
	      Reboot a server.

       cloudservers rebuild
	      Shutdown, re-image, and re-boot a server.

       cloudservers rename
	      Rename a server.

       cloudservers resize
	      Resize a server.

       cloudservers resize-confirm
	      Confirm a previous resize.

       cloudservers resize-revert
	      Revert a previous resize (and return to the previous VM).

       cloudservers root-password
	      Change the root password for a server.

       cloudservers show
	      Show details about the given server.

   Optional arguments:
       --username USERNAME
	      Defaults to env[CLOUD_SERVERS_USERNAME].

       --apikey APIKEY
	      Defaults to env[CLOUD_SERVERS_API_KEY].

       See "cloudservers help COMMAND" for help on a specific command.

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