This is part of my [xen box setup]{rtag/xen-box-setup} “series”.

Xen domain 0 (or dom0) is special. It starts up all the other xen hosts and, be it by a rule or simply by convention, it tends to run all the drivers.

I have already covered how I [partitioned my disk]{lvm2-on-raid1}. Let’s now start with this fresh install of debian/testing and get a xen dom0 running on top of it. The following steps assume that the system:

• is a 32bit x86 box running debian/testing
• has RAID1 devices configured as per my [LVM2 on RAID1]{lvm2-on-raid1} writeup
• uses grub for a bootloader
• was booting a recent 2.6.x kernel

This is part of my [xen box setup]{rtag/xen-box-setup} “series”. :)

I’ve installed debian on a RAID1 device, /dev/md0. This takes up a fraction of the disk, and my plan is to create a large LVM2 group on another RAID1 that I can use to dynamically create devices for my xen domains.

I decided to try out xen on my development / test box. I will write a bit more about what I did, but first here are some links: