Asking Xen User Questions
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Xen Users Mailing List Commonly Asked Questions
Introduction
This document is a Xen.org community effort to gather the most commonly asked questions from the xen-users emailing list and other support tools to assist new and experienced Xen hypervisor users with problems that frequently arise. If you would like to add content to this document, please send an email to community.manager@xen.org for editing rights if you don't have wiki editing rights already. For those users interested in trying Xen without installing the application, a Live CD version is available at http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/LiveCD.
Support Tools
The following sites are available for Xen hypervisor support:
- xen-users mailing list - http://lists.xensource.com/mailman/listinfo/xen-users
- Xen 3.3 Documentation - http://bits.xensource.com/Xen/docs/user.pdf
- Stack Oveflow - http://stackoverflow.com/
- Complete email history of all xen mailing lists - http://xen.markmail.org
- Language Specific Support
- Japanese - http://lists.xensource.com/mailman/listinfo/xen-japanese
- Portuguese - http://groups.google.com/group/xen-br
How To Guide Links
The Xen.org community Wiki has a HowTo Page with various information sources at http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/HowTos. Updates to this Wiki page are continuous so check back often for new How Tos. Sample topics internally within the Wiki are:
Sample topics with external links are:
- Adding USB Devices to Xen HVM - http://www.virtuatopia.com/index.php
- Xen on Fedora - http://rackerhacker.com/2011/08/05/xen-4-1-on-fedora-15-with-linux-3-0/
- Create and Install CentOS on Xen - http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Xen/InstallingCentOSDomU
- http://www.virtuatopia.com/index.php/Configuring_a_VNC_based_Graphical_Console_for_a_Xen_Paravirtualized_domainU_Guest
- https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Xen Xen on Ubuntu
Guest Related Questions
Guest Conversion
Console
See Xen_FAQ_Console
Drivers
Domain0
See Xen_FAQ_Dom0
See Xen_FAQ_DomU
Devices
See Xen_FAQ_Devices
Installation Questions
Networking Questions
Security Questions
See Xen_FAQ_Security