Xen Virtualization: A Practical Handbook

Content: Xen Virtualization
 Xen Virtualization
 Credits
 About the Author
 About the Reviewers
 Preface
 What This Book Covers
 Conventions
 Reader Feedback
 Customer Support
 Errata
 Questions
 1. Introduction
 What is Xen?
 How Does it Work?
 What Can I Do with It?
 Xen Terminologies
 Summary
 2. Running Xen
 Installing Xen from Binary Packages
 Time for Action-Installing Xen with yum
 
 What Just Happened?
 Installing Xen from Source
 Time for Action-Compile Xen
 
 What Just Happened?
 Summary
 3. Creating Virtual Machines
 A Plan for Creating Xen Domains
 Physical Address Extension. Compiling a domU KernelXen Domain Memory
 Pygrub
 Ubuntu Feisty
 Time for Action-Bootstrapping an Ubuntu System
 
 What Just Happened?
 NetBSD
 Time for Action-Install NetBSD
 
 What Just Happened?
 CentOS
 Time for Action-Using qemu to Create a CentOS Image
 
 What Just Happened?
 Slackware
 Time for Action-Utilize Xen Images from jailtime.org
 
 What Just Happened?
 Summary
 4. Managing Xen
 Xen Domain Configuration Files
 Xen Management User Interface-xm
 Time for Action-Xen Manager
 
 What Just Happened?
 XenMan-Installing and Running
 Time for Action-Install and Run XenMan. What Just Happened?Virtual Machine Manager
 Time for Action-Running virt-manager
 
 What Just Happened?
 Summary
 5. Networking
 Bridged Networking
 Time for Action-Using Bridged Networking
 
 What Just Happened?
 Routed Networking
 Time for Action-Using Routed Networking
 
 What Just Happened?
 Virtual Local Network with Network Address Translation
 Time for Action-Using VLAN with NAT
 
 What Just Happened?
 Summary
 6. Storage
 Files
 NFS
 Time for Action-Using NFS
 
 What Just Happened?
 Logical Volume Management
 Time for Action-Using LVM
 
 What Just Happened?
 Advanced Storage Options. Redundant Array of Independent/Inexpensive DrivesGlobal Network Block Device
 Summary
 7. Encryption
 Device Mapper-Based Encryption
 Time for Action-Encrypting Block Devices
 
 What Just Happened?
 Device Mapper-Based Encryption Using LUKS
 Time for Action-by Extending dm-crypt
 
 What Just Happened?
 Summary
 8. Migration
 Migration Requirements
 Saving and Restoring a Domain
 Time for Action-Migrate Domains on your Xen Server
 
 What Just Happened?
 Live Migration
 Time for Action-Relocation of an Active Running domain
 
 What Just Happened?
 Summary
 9. Xen Future
 Libvirt
 Vmcasting.