Similar to other Virtualization tutorials, keep in mind that the install of XenServer will erase all data and drives connected to the local machine during the installation. The drives will become part of a an LVM group that XenServer will use for the creation of VDI all VDIs and guest VM containers. It is recommended that you disconnect all drives but one during this first setup. Later you can add drives and attempt more advance configurations, like greyhole for your Amahi VM. For now, this tutorial sets up a simple install of XenServer and one VM running Amahi 7.1

Put the server into Maintenance Mode. Download the updates suggested from the XenCenter on a client machine. Use SCP to copy the downloaded update file to a location you can find on the XenCenter server or on Windows use an SCP program like [http://www.putty.org/ Bitvise WinSSHD] . Then SSH from a client computer into the XenServer. Run For each of the following commands use the user 'root' and the password you setup during the installation of your XenServer. Start by running the following at the command prompt:

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Create a New VM, then choose <b>Other install Media Template</b>. Name the machine without spaces, choose to install from DVD drive where you have the Amahi 7.1 express disk located. Place on your Xenserver XenServer and choose CPU and RAM. I recommend a A recommended minimum of would be 1 CPU, 2048 MB RAM. Now add a virtual disk. For better performance you should have a separate drive or drive pool for each VM you create. I just created To start, create a new 500 GB or larger VDI and move on a disk I use for a variety of VMs and 750 GBto the network setup. Again, for better performance, choose a dedicated NIC for each VM. I For this tutorial, you can just chose choose the defaults which is a shared NIC on my your XenServer. Switch to console on the newly created VM and install Amahi 7.1 as you would like.

One suggested change Switch to make is the boot partition needs to be ext3console tab on the newly created VM and install Amahi 7.1 as per [http://docs. While partitioning the hard drive, choose Ext3 rather than Ext4, because ’pygrub’, the XenServer bootloader for the PV mode, can’t read Ext4amahi. If org/ instructions] (ensure you wish to benefit from Ext4 advantages anyway, then you’ll have to create a /boot partition in Ext3 your code and the / partition that you let it reboot twice before initializing in Ext4. Finish the Amahi install as per instructionsbrowser).

After rebootIf you are happy with a simple setup and not too concerned about performance then you could stop here and skip to the part about <b>installing Xen-Tools below</b>. SSH The guest VM with Amahi installed on it is in <i>HVM mode or hardware assisted virtualization</i> (more information [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xen here]). If you would like your guest VM to run in <i>paravirtualization mode</i>, which will give better performance and execute this command;# yum -y update opensslaccess to more than three drives, you need to complete the next part.

 <h3>Convert to PV or Paravitualize Tips from: https://www.cetic.be</Paravirtualize-an-Ubuntu-VM-usingh3>

Copy First you should copy down the defaults from grub2 on the Amahi VM. Go to /boot/grub2 and read grub.cfg. Need {|style="width:95%; margin-left: 10px; border-collapse: collapse; border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; border-color: #aaa"!style="color:#777; background-color:#dfd;text-align:left"|{{{lang|{{{2|bash}}}}}} code|-|{{#tag:syntaxhighlight|​{{{Code|vi /boot/grub2/grub.cfg}}}​|lang={{{lang|{{{2|bash}}}}}}|enclose=none}}|}<!--{{#tag:syntaxhighlight|{{{1}}}}}--> 

Then ssh on SSH in to the XenServer host and identify the name of the VM you wish to convert to PV mode.

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You will need the name of the VM not the UUID. Now download the [https://www.cetic.be/IMG/zip/makepv.sh.zip makepv.sh] script.

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chmod +x makepvThis script will:<ul><li>change the bootloader from HVM to PV mode<li>prompt for kernel path <i>(/boot/vmlinuz-3.sh10.5-201.fc19.x86_64)</i><li>prompt for kernel parameters <i>(root=UUID=42e4c7e4-f260-4462-ad9c-c3f375e3a967 ro rd.md=0 rd.lvm=0 rd.dm=0 vconsole.keymap=us rd.luks=0 vconsole.font=latarcyrheb-sun16 rhgb quiet)</makepvi><li>prompt for initrd path <i>(/boot/initramfs-3.10.5-201.sh fc19.x86_64.img)<vm name/i><li>convert VM hard drive</ul>

Install XenServer Tools for linuxFirst Use XenCenter to insert Once you have the xs-toolsscript downloaded and unpacked make it executable and run it.iso in the DVD driveThen SSH into the Amahi VM (the console will not work until these tools are installed);

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