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Commit 756d5ec3 authored by Guido Trotter's avatar Guido Trotter
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Update hypervisor installation section


Currently the section is called "Installing Xen" and also mentions KVM.
Updating the title and also make it slightly less xen-centric.

Signed-off-by: default avatarGuido Trotter <ultrotter@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMichael Hanselmann <hansmi@google.com>
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unrelated.
Installing Xen
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Installing The Hypervisor
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**Mandatory** on all nodes.
While Ganeti is developed with the ability to modularly run on
different virtualization environments in mind the only two currently
useable on a live system are Xen and KVM. Supported
Xen versions are: 3.0.3, 3.0.4 and 3.1.
While Ganeti is developed with the ability to modularly run on different
virtualization environments in mind the only two currently useable on a live
system are Xen and KVM. Supported Xen versions are: 3.0.3, 3.0.4 and 3.1.
Supported KVM version are 72 and above.
Please follow your distribution's recommended way to install and set
up Xen, or install Xen from the upstream source, if you wish,
following their manual. For KVM, make sure you have a KVM-enabled
kernel and the KVM tools.
After installing either hypervisor, you need to reboot into your new
system. On some distributions this might involve configuring GRUB
appropriately, whereas others will configure it automatically when you
install the respective kernels.
After installing Xen, you need to reboot into your new system. On some
distributions this might involve configuring GRUB appropriately, whereas others
will configure it automatically when you install the respective kernels. For
KVM no reboot should be necessary.
.. admonition:: Debian
.. admonition:: Xen on Debian
Under Lenny or Etch you can install the relevant
``xen-linux-system`` package, which will pull in both the
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