Xen guests

Here are instructions for setting up new guest servers in Xen. Make sure you have your Xen host set up correctly. Specifically the xen-tools configuration, which is what we use to create the guests. If an install fails, read the log in /var/log/xen-tools.

• create the guest in the Xen dom0 with xen-tools (–dist is optional)

xen-create-image --ip=IP --host=HOSTNAME --dist=hardy

After a bit you should be able to ssh to root@IP

• do updates and then install whatever!

apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

• copy your ssh key to enable root log in

mkdir .ssh
scp somehost:.ssh/root_rsa.pub .ssh/authorized_keys

• disable root login in /etc/ssh/sshd_config if you did the above, otherwise don't do this!

PermitRootLogin without-password

• restart ssh server

/etc/init.d/ssh restart