THIS IS A GUI INSTALLATION, AND DOES NOT WORK WITH SSH

NEED SSH DOCUMENTATION

THIS ALSO ASSUMES YOU HAVE A WEB SERVER INSTALLED!

• Server CentOS 5 with XEN (in theory, it can be done with any server with Xen). Assume IP 192.168.21.25
• Web server activated (for this test, we will use as DocumentRoot this directory /var/www/html)
• Elastix image > 0.8-3 (in our case: Elastix-0.8-4-18jun2007.iso)

• Create the folder for the point of installation

  mkdir /var/www/html/Elastix

• Copy the “ks_xen.cfg” file to /var/www/html. This file can be downloaded at the URL provided in the Resources section below.

• Add the Elastix image

  mount -o loop Elastix-0.8-4-18jun2007.iso /var/www/html/Elastix

• Open “Virtual Machine Manager”:

  virt-manager

• In the window “Open connection” choose: “Xen Local Host”

• Select the “New” button

• In the window “Create a new virtual system” click the button “Next”

• Choose a name for the virtual machine; in our case “ElastiXen”

• Choose the method of virtualization; in our case “Paravirtualization”

• Later, in the “Locating the installation medium” screen, use “URL of the Installation Medium” and type: http://192.168.21.25/Elastix. In “URL of Kickstart” type: http://192.168.21.25/ks_xen.cfg

• For the “Assigning storage space” window, choose “Simple file” and look for the path of the image file of the virtual machine. Also specify the size.

• Continue and create the file for the hard drive of the virtual machine and start the installation process. Proceed as usual.

The “ks_xen.cfg” file can be downloaded here: http://www.elastix.org/downloads/ks_xen.cfg

We recommend the following reading: http://www.centos.org/docs/5/pdf/Virtualization.pdf