Xen instead of VMWare

Last weekend I installed Xen
on the server. Before that I was using VMWare but first off it was only
used as to test things out but more and more I found my self using
VMWare using as virtualization server.

Th issue I had with VMWare, was you need GUI to create new images,
you need X.ORG complete installed which you don’t need on a server.
Also some other reason but they aren’t important for that mather.

I didn’t had the time to make a complete new installation so I
simple uninstalled VMWare-Server and followed a how-to from
howtoforge.org: http://howtoforge.com/debian_etch_xen_from_debian_repository

The installation when very smooth in about 15 minutes I had a xen
server up and running. Now the matter was to install guest on the xen
server.

Since I’m a big fan of Debian I decide to try to create a Debian
guest. With a little search on the net I found what I wanted xen images
on lvm I decided to do the same since it was very easy to maintain en
to extend them.

There for I needed to install xen-tools and used the following command:
xen-create-image -lvm=xenguests \
--debootstrap --size=5GB --memory=512MB --swap=1024MB \
--fs=reiserfs --dist=etch \
--ip=192.168.1.201 --netmask 255.255.255.0 --gateway=192.168.1.1 \
--hostname=<hostname> --passwd --force

I ran the command and I had a new installation of Debian in matter
of minutes. Now I’m planning to move all the service to the guest
system…. Hope it will run smooth…