Howto Xen 4.4 on Debian Jessie at Hetzner

Introduction This instructions are for base installation of Xen hypervisor on Debian Wheezy/Jessie server on Hetzner root server. First we are going to install useful linux tools. After installation and configuration of Xen on Debian, we are doing the network setup with IPv4 and IPv6. There is a difference wheter you buy a IP address subnet or single additional…

nftables vs iptables on Debian

There is no versus – nftables will be successor of iptables. You might know ebtables, iptables, ip6tables, arptables – in future there will be an abstraction layer for ipv4, ipv6, arp, bridge hazzle to enable icmp ping only for example and further nice firewall rules. For easier upgrade there are translation-wrapper existing to move from iptables…

XCP-XAPI, XCP, Xen Mangement via API

Xen Management Follow my story about how to control Xen Dom0 with console, web interface or api. History In 2013 and 2014 I thought it could be possible to have a Xen installation on Debian/CentOS/Whatever Linux. This is easy manageable via web interface, management console (like XenCenter) or API. Well, XenCenter+XenServer is the best, but feels…