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Chapter 3. Installing Windows VMs

XenServer allows you to install Windows 2000 SP4, Windows Server 2003 (32-/64- bit), or Windows XP

SP2 into a VM. Installing Windows VMs on XenServer Host requires hardware virtualization support (Intel

VT or AMD-V).

Installing a Windows VM can be broken down into two main steps:

•

installing the Windows operating system

•

installing the

paravirtualized device drivers

Windows VMs are installed by cloning an appropriate template from either XenCenter or the CLI. The tem-

plates for individual guests have predefined platform flags set which define the configuration of the virtual

hardware. For example, all Windows VMs are installed with the ACPI Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL). If

you subsequently change one of these VMs to have multiple virtual CPUs, Windows automatically switches

the HAL to multi-processor mode.

The available Windows templates are:

•

Windows Vista:

can be used to install Windows Vista 32-bit. The

Enterprise

edition is supported.

•

Windows Server 2003:

can be used to install Windows Server 2003 32-bit SP0, SP1, and SP2. The

Server, Enterprise, Data Centre, and SBS editions are supported.

•

Windows Server 2003 x64:

can be used to install Windows Server 2003 64-bit. The Server, Enterprise,

Data Centre, and SBS editions are supported.

•

Windows 2000 SP4:

can be used to install Windows 2000 Server Service Pack 4. Earlier service packs

are not supported.

•

Windows XP SP2:

can be used to install Windows XP Service Pack 2. Earlier service packs are not

supported.

The Windows VM can be installed either from a install CD in a physical CD-ROM on the XenServer Host, or

from an ISO image of your Windows media (see Appendix A,

Creating ISO images

for information on how

to make an ISO image from a Windows install CD and make it available for use).

3.1. Making the ISO available to XenServer Hosts

To make an ISO library available to XenServer Hosts, create an external NFS or SMB/CIFS share directo-

ry. The NFS or SMB/CIFS server must be set to allow root access to the share. For NFS shares, this is

accomplished by setting the

no_root_squash

flag when you create the share entry in

/etc/exports

on the NFS server.

Then either use XenCenter to attach the ISO library, or connect to the host console and type in:

xe-mount-iso-sr

host:/volume

Additional arguments to the mount command may be passed in, for advanced use.

Section	Page
XenServer Virtual Machine Installation Guide	1
Table of Contents	4
Chapter 1. About this document	6
1.1. Overview	6
1.2. How this Guide relates to other documentation	6
Chapter 2. Creating VMs	7
2.1. Overview	7
2.2. Virtual memory and disk size limits	7
2.3. XenServer product family virtual device support	8
2.4. Physical to Virtual Conversion (P2V)	9
2.4.1. General Guidelines for Virtualizing Physical Servers	10
2.5. Cloning an existing VM	11
2.6. Importing an exported VM	11
2.6.1. Exporting a VM	12
2.6.2. Importing a VM	12
Chapter 3. Installing Windows VMs	14
3.1. Making the ISO available to XenServer Hosts	14
3.1.1. Copying ISOs to local storage	15
3.2. Windows paravirtualized drivers	16
3.3. Remote Desktop	16
3.4. Preparing to clone a Windows VM	17
3.5. Release Notes	18
3.5.1. General Windows Issues	18
3.5.2. Windows 2003 Server	18
3.5.3. Windows XP SP2	18
3.5.4. Windows 2000 Server	18
3.5.5. Windows Vista	18
Chapter 4. Installing Linux VMs	19
4.1. Installation of a built-in distribution	20
4.2. Installing Linux from vendor media to a VM	20
4.3. Installing Linux from a network installation server to a VM	22
4.4. Physical-to-Virtual Installation of a Linux VM	23
4.4.1. Guest Installation Network	23
4.5. Installing the Linux guest agent	24
4.6. Preparing to clone a Linux VM	25
4.6.1. Machine Name	25
4.6.2. IP address	25
4.6.3. MAC address	26
4.7. Time handling in Linux VMs	26
4.8. Configuring VNC for VMs	26
4.8.1. Setting up Red Hat-based VMs for VNC	26
4.8.1.1. Determining the location of your VNC configuration file	27
4.8.1.2. Configuring GDM to use VNC	27
4.8.1.3. Firewall settings	28
4.8.1.4. VNC screen resolution	28
4.8.2. Setting up SLES-based VMs for VNC	29
4.8.2.1. Checking for a VNCserver	29
4.8.2.2. Enabling Remote Administration	29
4.8.2.3. Modifying the xinetd configuration	30
4.8.2.4. Firewall settings	30
4.8.2.5. VNC screen resolution	31
4.8.3. Setting up Debian-based VMs for VNC	32
4.8.4. Checking runlevels	32
4.9. Release Notes	32
4.9.1. Debian Sarge 3.1 and Etch 4.0	32
4.9.2. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3	33
4.9.3. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	33
4.9.3.1. Preparing a RHEL 4.x guest for P2V	34
4.9.4. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	34
4.9.5. CentOS 4	35
4.9.6. CentOS 5	35
4.9.7. SUSE Enterprise Linux 9	35
4.9.8. SUSE Enterprise Linux 10 SP1	35
4.9.9. Oracle Enterprise Linux 5	35
Chapter 5. Updating VMs	36
5.1. Updating Windows operating systems	36
5.2. Updating paravirtualized drivers for Windows VMs	36
5.3. Updating Linux kernels and guest utilities	37
Appendix A. Creating ISO images	38
Appendix B. Setting Up a Red Hat Installation Server	39
B.1. Copy installation media	39
B.2. Enable remote access	39
B.2.1. NFS	39
B.2.2. FTP	40
B.2.3. HTTP	40
Appendix C. Troubleshooting VM problems	41
C.1. VM crashes	41
C.1.1. Linux VMs	41
C.1.2. Windows VMs	41
C.2. Troubleshooting boot problems on Linux VMs	42

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