HP BL680c XenServer Virtual Machine Installation 4.1.0 - Page 4

Table of Contents 1. About this document ...1 1.1. Overview ...1 1.2. How this Guide relates to other documentation 1 2. Creating VMs ...2 2.1. Overview ...2 2.2. Virtual memory and disk size limits 2 2.3. XenServer product family virtual device support 3 2.4. Physical to Virtual Conversion (P2V 4 2.4.1. General Guidelines for Virtualizing Physical Servers 5 2.5. Cloning an existing VM 6 2.6. Importing an exported VM 6 2.6.1. Exporting a VM 7 2.6.2. Importing a VM 7 3. Installing Windows VMs 9 3.1. Making the ISO available to XenServer Hosts 9 3.1.1. Copying ISOs to local storage 10 3.2. Windows paravirtualized drivers 11 3.3. Remote Desktop 11 3.4. Preparing to clone a Windows VM 12 3.5. Release Notes 13 3.5.1. General Windows Issues 13 3.5.2. Windows 2003 Server 13 3.5.3. Windows XP SP2 13 3.5.4. Windows 2000 Server 13 3.5.5. Windows Vista 13 4. Installing Linux VMs 14 4.1. Installation of a built-in distribution 15 4.2. Installing Linux from vendor media to a VM 15 4.3. Installing Linux from a network installation server to a VM 17 4.4. Physical-to-Virtual Installation of a Linux VM 18 4.4.1. Guest Installation Network 18 4.5. Installing the Linux guest agent 19 4.6. Preparing to clone a Linux VM 20 4.6.1. Machine Name 20 4.6.2. IP address 20 4.6.3. MAC address 21 4.7. Time handling in Linux VMs 21 4.8. Configuring VNC for VMs 21 4.8.1. Setting up Red Hat-based VMs for VNC 21 4.8.2. Setting up SLES-based VMs for VNC 24 4.8.3. Setting up Debian-based VMs for VNC 27 4.8.4. Checking runlevels 27 4.9. Release Notes 27 4.9.1. Debian Sarge 3.1 and Etch 4.0 27 4.9.2. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 28 4.9.3. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 28 4.9.4. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 29 4.9.5. CentOS 4 30 4.9.6. CentOS 5 30 4.9.7. SUSE Enterprise Linux 9 30 4.9.8. SUSE Enterprise Linux 10 SP1 30 4