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25 April 2008
Xen CentOS/Fedora/Red Hat Guest OS Hangs During Boot
New page: Solution: A partial output of the boot process prior to the boot appearing to hang is as follows: <pre> Creating root device. Mounting root filesystem. kjournald starting. Commit interva...
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A Xen Guest OS fails to boot with a "switchroot: mount failed: No such file or directory error message" error message.
New page: The typical full output from this type of Xen Guest OS boot failure is as follows: <pre> Mounting root filesystem. mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root' Setting up other filesystem...
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Xen domainU fails to boot with a "Xen Guest OS Fails to Boot with Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)" error message
New page: The most common cause of this problem is that the guest operating system requires a RAM Disk as part of the initial phases boot process and one has not been defined in the Xen configuratio...
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Ubuntu Xen System Boot Hangs After Setting System Clock Message
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Ubuntu Xen System Boot Hangs After Setting System Clock Message
New page: After installing the Ubuntu xen-server packages and rebooting the operating system using the Xen kernel the boot process appears to hang after displaying the "Setting system clock..." mess...
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Ubuntu Xen Guest (DomU) Hangs after EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode message
Problem: Ubuntu Xen Guest (DomU) Hangs after EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode message
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Ubuntu Xen Guest (DomU) Hangs after EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode message
New page: == Problem: Ubuntu Xen Guest (DomU) Hangs after EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode message == Attempting to boot a Xen guest (domU) system on Ubuntu Linux results in the b...
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CentOS 5 - Build a Custom Xen Kernel with NFS Root Filesystem (CONFIG ROOT NFS) Support
Configuring the Kernel with make menuconfig
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CentOS 5 - Build a Custom Xen Kernel with NFS Root Filesystem (CONFIG ROOT NFS) Support
Configuring the Kernel with make menuconfig
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CentOS 5 - Build a Custom Xen Kernel with NFS Root Filesystem (CONFIG ROOT NFS) Support
Configuring the Kernel with make menuconfig
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CentOS 5 - Build a Custom Xen Kernel with NFS Root Filesystem (CONFIG ROOT NFS) Support
Customizing the Kernel for NFS Root Support
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CentOS 5 - Build a Custom Xen Kernel with NFS Root Filesystem (CONFIG ROOT NFS) Support
Preparing for the Custom Kernel Build
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CentOS 5 - Build a Custom Xen Kernel with NFS Root Filesystem (CONFIG ROOT NFS) Support
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CentOS 5 - Build a Custom Xen Kernel with NFS Root Filesystem (CONFIG ROOT NFS) Support
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CentOS 5 - Build a Custom Xen Kernel with NFS Root Filesystem (CONFIG ROOT NFS) Support
Obtaining the Kernel Sources
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CentOS 5 - Build a Custom Xen Kernel with NFS Root Filesystem (CONFIG ROOT NFS) Support
Preparing for the Custom Kernel Build
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Obtaining the Kernel Sources
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CentOS 5 - Build a Custom Xen Kernel with NFS Root Filesystem (CONFIG ROOT NFS) Support
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23 April 2008
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New Virtualization How To Guides
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Welcome to the World of Virtualization
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CentOS 5 - Build a Custom Xen Kernel with NFS Root Filesystem (CONFIG ROOT NFS) Support
New page: A common Xen configuration involves mounting the root filesystems for domainU guests from a remote server using NFS (for details on setting up such a configuration read [[Creating and Boot...
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Creating and Booting a Xen Guest domainU using an NFS Mounted Root Filesystem
Exporting and Mounting the Xen Guest Root Filesystem
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Creating and Booting a Xen Guest domainU using an NFS Mounted Root Filesystem
Creating the Xen Configuration File for the NFS Root Filesystem
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Creating and Booting a Xen Guest domainU using an NFS Mounted Root Filesystem
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22 April 2008
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Xen Monitoring Tools and Techniques
Monitoring Performance with XenTop
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Monitoring Xen Performance with XenMon
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Obtaining Xen Configuration and System Information
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Obtaining Xen Configuration and System Information
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Xen Monitoring Tools and Techniques
New page: So far in this book we have focused primarily on the creation of Xen guest domains (domainU). By this stage it is safe to assume that you now have one or more domainU systems up and runnin...
Xen Virtualization Essentials
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