So I thought that it would be a
simple task of "building XEN from source" on Ubuntu 11.10. I was
totally wrong about it. It took me a handsome amount of time (almost
a week) to build XEN, that too with a lot of help from
www.google.com.pk.
After complete Installation of XEN,
I stumbled upon this magical Linux terminal command:
#sudo
apt-get install xen-hypervisor-4.1-amd64 xen-utils-4.1 xenwatch
xen-tools xen-utils-common xenstore-utils
#sudo
apt-get install virtinst virt-viewer virt-manager
These two commands do pretty much
everything for you. All you are left is to care for the post-installation issues regarding XEN. I will post these issues in my next post.
- First command installs XEN 4.1 which is still among the latest ones. Apart from that, it also install few other packages which are helpful to use with XEN. You can easily search for latest package of XEN and use it with "apt-get install"
- Second command installs the “virt-manager” which gives the virtual interface to the XEN virtual machines. One can still use the CLI on terminal but GU interface is just easy on eyes.
