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How to Resize/Increase the Virtual Disk “LVM” of a Xen DomU Guest Virtual Machine
In this mini post, I’ll show you how to resize/increase the size of the virtual hard disk used in a Xen DomU virtual machine “guest”. One of the challenges that comes with managing Xen domU instances is dealing with virtual machines that run out of disk space. If the initialRead More
How to Install Xen Hypervisor on Debian 9 “Stretch” and Debian 8 “Jessie” Linux Systems
In this article, we will discuss the installation of Xen hypervisor server on Linux systems (Debian Family “Debian 9 “Stretch” and Debian 8 “Jessie” /Ubuntu 14.04, and higher”). The following steps worked on Debian 9 “stretch” and the result was installing xen 4.8 on Debian 9. For Debian 8 “Jessie”Read More
How to Reset the Root Password for a Xen DomU Guest Virtual Machine Through Booting in Single User Mode
In this mini post, I’ll show you how to reset a Xen DomU virtual machine “guest” forgotten root password using either xl or xm management tools. suppose for any reason you forgot the root password of your guest VM or you accidentally changed it to unknown password, and you wantRead More
Introduction to Server Virtualization Technology
In this article we will discuss the Server / Hardware virtualization technology, This is a one type of the virtualization technology used in the IT world. We will discuss it’s implementation methods, and advantages, later in another articles we will install and configure KVM virtualization, and Xen virtualization on differentRead More
Install KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) on Linux Systems
In this article we will discuss the installation of KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) on Linux systems (RPM Family “Redhat 7/CentOS 7/Scientific Linux 7”). KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution built into the standard RedHat Enterprise Linux kernel . It can run multiple, unmodified Windows and Linux guestRead More
