Professional Xen Virtualization

William von Hagen (Bill) has been a UNIX system administrator for over 20 years and a Linux fanatic since the early 1990s. He has worked as a systems programmer, system administrator, writer, applications developer, drummer, and documentation manager. Bill has written or co-written books on such topics as Ubuntu Linux, GCC, Linux server hacks, Linux filesystems, SUSE Linux, Red Hat Linux, SGML, Mac OS X, and hacking the TiVo. He has also written numerous articles on Linux, embedded computing, Mac OS X, Unix, and open source technology.

Acknowledgments. Introduction. Chapter 1: Overview of Virtualization. Chapter 2: Introduction to Xen. Chapter 3: Obtaining and Installing Xen. Chapter 4: Booting and Configuring a Xen Host. Chapter 5: Configuring and Booting Virtual Machines. Chapter 6: Building Filesystems for Virtual Machines. Chapter 7: Managing and Monitoring Virtual Machines. Chapter 8: Xen Networking. Chapter 9: Advanced Virtual Machine Configuration. Chapter 10: Using Xen in the Data Center. Appendix A: xm Command and Option Reference. Appendix B: Xen Virtual Machine Configuration File Reference. Index.