HowTo: new debian squeeze VM for XEN (the manual way)
August 24th, 2012
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How to set up debian squeeze as domU. Replace irc with the desired name
execute on dom0:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 | mkdir /mnt/target lvcreate -L 20G vg -nirc lvcreate -L 2G vg -nirc_swap mkfs.ext3 /dev/vg/irc mkswap /dev/vg/irc_swap mount /dev/vg/irc /mnt/target cd /mnt/target debootstrap squeeze . http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian |
configuring:
1 2 3 4 | vi etc/fstab vi etc/network/interfaces chroot . /bin/bash passwd |
basic installation fixup:
1 2 3 4 | apt-get remove vim-tiny apt-get install vim ctags vim-doc vim-scripts exit umount /mnt/target |
1 | vi /etc/xen/irc |
(fix up before pasting!)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 | # -*- mode: python; -*- kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz-X-xen-amd64" ramdisk = "/boot/initrd.img-X-xen-amd64" memory = 512 name = 'irc' hostname = name + ".yourdomain.com" vif = [ 'ip=<IPV6> <IPV4>,mac=<MAC>', 'ip=<IPV4_internal>,mac=<MAC>' ] disk = [ 'phy:/dev/vg/'+name+' ,sda1,w', 'phy:/dev/vg/'+name+'_swap,sda2,w' ] root = "/dev/sda1 ro" vcpus = "1" cpus="3" extra = "xencons=tty console=xvc0 barrier=0 clocksource=jiffies" |
boot the new machine:
1 2 3 4 5 6 | xm create -c irc #after logging in: vi /etc/hostname hostname <> apt-get install openssh-server # install more software now :) |
now how to install qwebirc, in case you want that 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 | apt-get install python python-twisted python-twisted-bin python-twisted-core python-twisted-runner python-twisted-names python-twisted-mail python-twisted-words python-twisted-web python-zope.interface python-openssl openjdk-6-jdk mercurial cd /opt/ hg clone http://hg.qwebirc.org/qwebirc/ cp config.py.example config.py vi config.py # fix your config up! python compile.py # start it up on port 80 :) python run.py -p 80 # visit your ip in your browser |
and done, have fun 