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Installing Xen
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Installing The Hypervisor
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**Mandatory** on all nodes. |
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While Ganeti is developed with the ability to modularly run on |
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different virtualization environments in mind the only two currently
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useable on a live system are Xen and KVM. Supported
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Xen versions are: 3.0.3, 3.0.4 and 3.1.
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While Ganeti is developed with the ability to modularly run on different
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virtualization environments in mind the only two currently useable on a live
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system are Xen and KVM. Supported Xen versions are: 3.0.3, 3.0.4 and 3.1.
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Supported KVM version are 72 and above.
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Please follow your distribution's recommended way to install and set |
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up Xen, or install Xen from the upstream source, if you wish, |
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following their manual. For KVM, make sure you have a KVM-enabled |
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kernel and the KVM tools. |
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After installing either hypervisor, you need to reboot into your new
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system. On some distributions this might involve configuring GRUB
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appropriately, whereas others will configure it automatically when you
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install the respective kernels.
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After installing Xen, you need to reboot into your new system. On some
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distributions this might involve configuring GRUB appropriately, whereas others
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will configure it automatically when you install the respective kernels. For
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KVM no reboot should be necessary.
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.. admonition:: Debian |
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.. admonition:: Xen on Debian
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Under Lenny or Etch you can install the relevant |
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``xen-linux-system`` package, which will pull in both the |
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