====== Xen Virtual Machines ======

====== Xen Server dom0 ======
You should create a partition a bit larger than the amount of ram allocated to domU guests.  If you shutdown the dom0, the domU guests are saved state to '/var/lib/xen/save'

<code>
lvcreate --size 16.1g --name xen vg01
mkdir /var/lib/xen
</code>

And add to /etc/fstab

<code>
/dev/mapper/vg01-xen /var/lib/xen            reiserfs noatime         0       2
</code>

and mount

<code>
mount /var/lib/xen
</code>

====== Xen Client domU using netboot ======

This creates the LV with equal-sized stripes over a 2 drive Volume Group (Creates a raid0 LV for write performance).

<code>
# lvcreate --size 10g -i 2 --name ubuntu14 vg01
  Using default stripesize 64.00 KiB
  Logical volume 'ubuntu14' created
</code>

<code>
mkdir /var/lib/xen/trusty-netboot
cd /var/lib/xen/trusty-netboot
wget -c http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/trusty/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/xen/initrd.gz
wget -c http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/trusty/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/xen/vmlinuz
</code>

**/etc/xen/ubuntu14.cfg**:

<code>
name = 'ubuntu14'

memory = 4000
vcpus = 4

disk = [ 'phy:vg01/ubuntu14,sda,w' ]
vif = [ 'bridge=xenbr0' ]

kernel = '/var/lib/xen/trusty-netboot/vmlinuz'
ramdisk = '/var/lib/xen/trusty-netboot/initrd.gz'
extra = 'debian-installer/exit/always_halt=true -- console=hvc0 url=server-with-preseed.com'
</code>
Start the installer:

<code>
xm create -c ubuntu14.cfg
</code>
After the install, revise the cfg file to comment out the local kernel/ramdisk and add pygrub.

<code>
...
#kernel = '/var/lib/xen/trusty-netboot/vmlinuz'
#ramdisk = '/var/lib/xen/trusty-netboot/initrd.gz'
#extra = 'debian-installer/exit/always_halt=true -- console=hvc0 url=server-with-preseed.com'
bootloader = 'pygrub'
</code>