• HowTos

For distribution specific guides, please see DistributionSupport.

Various How Tos

Networking

• XenNetworking

• XenNetworkingExamples

• Instructions for mapping VLANs on the Dom0 through to the DomU NICs. Redhat/CentOS specific

Ubuntu/FreeBSD/Gentoo/SUSE Linux/Slackware Linux/Debian/Fedora

• Xen Ubuntu Hoary as dom0, domU, with Debian Sarge to boot!

• Xen Ubuntu Breezy as dom0

• XenOnUbuntu64 Building Xen 3.0.4-1 on an Ubuntu 6.10 amd64 installation.

• Xen Using QEMU and Gentoo to do Xen development

• Xen For FreeBSD 5.3 as a guest/domU

• Xen Install SUSE Linux into domU using the yast installer.

• Xen Install Slackware Linux to a domU.

• Xen NetBSD domU setup on Debian Linux host (dom0)

• Xen Debian domU setup (with lvm domU partition)

• Xen Fedora Core 5, Clone Guests, Expand Guests, And Install Zimbra

• Xen Install SLES 10 RC 3 on a Dual Core Vanderpool System with Windows 2003 as guest

• Xen Fedora Core 6, Extend domU image

• Xen SAN based EVMS-HA SLES10 setup

Misc

• HowtouClibc Dom0 uClibc HOWTO

• Xen If you have very slow disk access, try this HOWTO.

• Xen Configuring Copy-on-Write storage

• XenWifi Using Xen in WiFi network

• XenKdumpAnalysis get xen whole-machine dump image and analyse it

• How to do PCI Passthrough with VT-d

• Kernel.org Linux on Xen

• VcpusWithXen

External Links

Clustering

• Step by step guide for creating a Virtual Cluster with Xen

• Set up a self-managed Xen cluster (SysAdmin journal)

File System

• How to Create and Boot a Xen Guest domainU using an NFS Mounted Root Filesystem

• How to Build a Xen Virtual Guest Filesystem on a Disk Image (Cloning Host System)

• How to Build a Xen Virtual Guest Filesystem using Logical Volume Management (LVM)

• How to Build a Xen Virtual Guest Filesystem on a Physical Disk Partition (Cloning Host System)

• How to Build a Debian or Ubuntu Xen Guest Root Filesystem using debootstrap

• Building a Xen Guest Root Filesystem using yum and rpm

• Xen dom0 root filesystem over NFS Howto

DomainU Guest

• How to Use QEMU Disk Images for Xen DomainU Systems

• How to Build a Xen Guest Domain using Xen-Tools

Windows 7/XP/Vista/Server 2008

• Installing and Running Windows 7 as a Xen HVM domainU Guest

• Installing and Running Windows XP or Vista as a Xen HVM domainU Guest

• Virtualizing Windows Server 2008 with Xen

• Create a windows 32-bit domU (in italian)

Consoles

• How to Configure a VNC based Graphical Console for a Xen Paravirtualized domainU Guest

• How to Run and Connect to VNC Servers on a Xen Guest (domainU) System

DomainU Migration

• How to Perform Live Xen domainU Guest Migrations

USB Devices

• Adding USB Devices to a Xen HVM Guest

Install Xen on Various Linux Distros and OpenSolaris

• Installing Xen On An Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) Server From The Ubuntu Repositories

• The Perfect Xen 3.1.0 Setup For Debian Etch (i386)

• Installing Xen On An Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) Server From The Ubuntu Repositories

• Installing Xen On An Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Server From The Ubuntu Repositories

• The Perfect Xen 3.0.3 Setup For Debian Sarge

• Installing Xen On CentOS 5.0 (i386)

• How to set up Xen 3.0 from binaries in Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake)

• Xen Cluster Management With Ganeti On Debian Etch

• Xen With Graphical User Interface On A Fedora 7 Desktop

• Building Xen from source on Ubuntu (Dapper Drake) to support HVM guests

• Instructions for installing Xen on Gentoo 2006.0

• Instructions and files for a FreeBSD 5.3 domU install (w/sysinstall)

• Installing OpenSSI on Xen

• "grifferz" HOWTO install a Xen system

• Kip Macy's mini howto for FreeBSD 5.3 domU

• FreeBSD/Xen Howto (domU only currently)

• dom0 howto for Debian Sarge

• domU howto for Debian Sarge

• another HOWTO for Debian Sarge as dom0

• La virtualisation avec UML et XEN (French)

• The Perfect Xen 3.0 Setup For Debian

• Xen Tutorial For Debian And Ubuntu (dom0 And domU)

• Xen (2.0.7) dom0 Install From Source (Linux)

• NetBSD/xen Howto

• Xen on openSUSE

• PDF from Novell

• Xen HOWTO for Mandriva

• Howto setup a AMD 32bit Windows HVM on a notebook ASUS A6T

• Howto setup Xen on OpenSolaris

• Howto setup Xen on Ubuntu Server 6.06.1 (Italian)

• Howto setup Xen on CentOS 4.3 Dom0/DomU

• Howto setup Xen3 with virtual nets on SuSE 10.1

• HOWTO: Install OpenSUSE 10.1 as a Xen guest OS

Xen Management Tools

• Managing Xen With Xen-Tools, Xen-Shell, And Argo

Testing with Xen

• A moment of Xen: Virtualize Linux to test your apps

Misc

• Building Generic Change Roots for Multiple Platforms

• Automating Xen Virtual Machine Deployment