Xen

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Partition

# fdisk /dev/sda

n 3 [enter] +6G

Format

# mkfs.ext4 -E discard -L DEBIAN /dev/sda3
# mount /dev/disk/by-label/DEBIAN /mnt

Installation

# pacman -S debootstrap
# debootstrap --arch ARCH wheezy /mnt http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian
# LANG=C chroot /mnt /bin/bash
# export TERM=xterm-color
# cd /dev
# MAKEDEV generic

Configuration

File Systems

# nano /etc/fstab

# /etc/fstab
#
# <file system> <dir>    <type> <options>                           <dump> <pass>
/dev/sda3       /        ext4   discard,noatime,nodiratime,defaults 0      1

proc            /proc    proc   defaults                            0      0
devpts          /dev/pts devpts defaults                            0      0
shm             /dev/shm tmpfs  nodev,nosuid                        0      0
tmpfs           /tmp     tmpfs  size=2048M                          0      0
tmpfs           /var/log tmpfs  size=64M                            0      0

Network

# nano /etc/network/interfaces

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
    address 192.168.1.101
    network 192.168.1.0
    netmask 255.255.255.0
    gateway 192.168.1.1
iface br0 inet static
    bridge_ports none
    address 192.168.1.199
    broadcast 192.168.1.255
    netmask 255.255.255.0
    gateway 192.168.1.1

# nano /etc/resolv.conf

nameserver 192.168.1.1

# echo XEN > /etc/hostname
# nano /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1	localhost
127.0.0.1	XEN

Kernel

# nano /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

blacklist pcspkr
blacklist acpi_cpufreq
blacklist bluetooth

Packages

Debian

# nano /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian wheezy main non-free

Localization

# aptitude update
# aptitude install locales
# dpkg-reconfigure locales
# aptitude install console-data
# dpkg-reconfigure console-data
# aptitude install xen-linux-system-amd64

XEN

# exit
# ln -s /usr/lib/syslinux/mboot.c32 /boot/syslinux/mboot.c32
# mkdir /boot/Debian
# cp /mnt/boot/xen-4.1-amd64.gz /boot/Debian/
# cp /mnt/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-3-amd64 /boot/Debian/
# cp /mnt/boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-3-amd64 /boot/Debian/
# ln -s /boot/Debian/xen-4.1-amd64.gz /boot/Debian/xen.gz
# ln -s /boot/Debian/vmlinuz-3.2.0-3-amd64 /boot/Debian/vmlinuz
# ln -s /boot/Debian/vmlinuz-3.2.0-3-amd64 /boot/Debian/initrd.img
# nano /boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg

Boot Manager

LABEL debian
	MENU LABEL De^bian Linux
	LINUX ../Debian/vmlinuz
	APPEND root=/dev/sda3 ro quiet elevator=noop nmi_watchdog=0 vga=0
	INITRD ../Debian/initrd.img

LABEL xen
	MENU LABEL Debian ^Xen
	KERNEL mboot.c32
	APPEND ../Debian/xen.gz --- ../Debian/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3 ro quiet elevator=noop nmi_watchdog=0 vga=0 --- ../Debian/initrd.img