Text-based install

After completing a fresh install of Gutsy via alternate CD, boot into the “recovery mode” option from GRUB. You will be dumped into a BASH shell.

apt-get update && wget http://albertomilone.com/ubuntu/nvidia/scripts/legacy/envy_0.9.10-0ubuntu10_all.deb
gdebi -n envy_0.9.10-0ubuntu10_all.deb
envy -t

At this point it will probably install a few required packages via apt-get and then give you a menu. Here we want option 1, “Install the NVidia driver”. It theoretically will install all required development packages, download the driver from nvidia.com, and build and install it for you. It may fail saying it was missing a bunch of required packages, but if you install them by hand it will complete successfully.

apt-get install <packages>

GUI-based write-up to follow.

Drive: 500GB #1
Volume Group: server1
Volumes:
	swap_1 - 6GB - swap
	root_1 - 30GB - ext3 - mounted as /
	home_1 - 20GB - ext3 - mounted as /home/
Free space: ~398GB

500GB number two will probably wind up being a RAID mirror via my motherboard. This LVM layout allows me to dynamically allocate space for the many potential Xen DomUs I create.

To install Xen on Gutsy-AMD64 desktop version:
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-xen-desktop-amd64

My /etc/xen-tools/xen-tools.conf:

lvm = server1               # LVM volume group to use
install-method = debootstrap
size   = 4Gb                # Disk image size.
memory = 256Mb              # Memory size
swap   = 512Mb              # Swap size
fs     = ext3               # use the EXT3 filesystem for the disk image.
dist   = gutsy              # Default distribution to install.
gateway = 10.0.1.1
netmask = 255.255.255.0
cache = yes                 # Cache downloaded debs
passwd = 1                  # Set up root password during creation
kernel = /boot/vmlinuz-`uname -r`
initrd = /boot/initrd.img-`uname -r`
arch = amd64                # 64-bit domU
mirror = http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu
ext3_options = noatime,nodiratime,errors=remount-ro
serial_device = tty1

My /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp:

(xend-tcp-xmlrpc-server yes)
(xend-relocation-server yes)
(xend-relocation-server yes)
(xend-tcp-xmlrpc-server-address '')
(xend-tcp-xmlrpc-server-port 8006)
(xend-relocation-port 8002)
(xend-relocation-address '')
(xend-relocation-hosts-allow '')
(network-script network-bridge)
(vif-script vif-bridge)
(dom0-min-mem 196)
(dom0-cpus 0)
(vncpasswd '')

Edit the file /etc/xen-tools/xm.tmpl as follows, around line 19:

memory      = '{$memory}'
extra='xencons=tty'

To generate one Gutsy-based DomU:
xen-create-image --hostname=gutsy1 --ip=10.0.1.3 --verbose --force

To boot created DomU:
xm create gutsy1.cfg -c