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OS (infi8): Ubuntu 9.04 64-bit VMware (ubuntu) : Ubuntu 9.04 (32-bit) If these two files were in the http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/linux-2.6 repository, then I would have to do the hard way, but it seems I don't have much choice. So here is the steps. linux-modules-2.6.26-2-xen-686_2.6.26-15_i386.deb sudo dpkg -i linux-image-2.6.26-2-xen-686_2.6.26-15_i386.deb From the vmware ># wget ..

OS: Ubuntu 9.04 server (64-bit) Installing Xen on Ubuntu 9.04 ># apt-get install ubuntu-xen-server 1. Get the xen binary packages from the following web sites: * It seems that the package is no longer exists in the ftp server (2011/02/23) ># wget http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-modules-2.6.26-2-xen-amd64_2.6.26-21_amd64.deb ># wget http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/..

Install Xen ># apt-get install xen-hypervisor-3.2-1-amd64 xen-linux-system-2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 linux-image-2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 linux-modules-2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 linux-headers-2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 linux-headers-2.6.26-2-common-xen xen-tools Since we are going to use image-based VM, let's increase the limit on loop device. ># vim /etc/modules loop max_loop=64 Next, we need to config the xen ># vim /etc..

OProfile - a system-wide and process profiler Profiling runs in the background and data are collected at any time. It makes use of the hardware performance counters. opcontrol : starting and stopping the OProfile daemon and providing setup parameters. opreport : gives image and symbol-based profile summaries for the whole system or a process Installation ># sudo apt-get install oprofile Check fo..

We want to characterize or understand the behavior of a virtual machine (VM). Is it a CPU-intensive or I/O-intensive VM? We are going to use the following tools such as xentop and pidstat. Let's see which metrics would be appropriate to use to identify the characteristics of VM. VIRTUALIZED ENVIRONMENT Monitoring 1. XenTop When do we have to monitor dom0 and domU ?? source is available under too..

I used to be able to install Xen on 9.04 with binary format seamlessly somewhat. But after upgrading to 10.04, I am not sure whether the installation would work seamless as it was on 9.04. There are many tutorials on installing Xen 4.0 on 10.04 by compiling source codes, but I just want to install xen with the binary to make it simpler. Let me try with installing older version on 10.04. Here we ..

Edit vimrc ># vim ~/.vimrc "Folding Settings set foldmethod=indent set foldnestmax=1- set foldevel=1 Shortcuts za - toggle folding zM - fold everything zm - fold selected block zR - unfold everything zr - unfold selected block help :folding References 1. http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/114138 2. http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Folding 3. http://ft.bewatermyfriend.org/comp/vim/vimrc.html