Recently I completed my migration from Xen / Fedora Core to KVM / Ubuntu. I have been a long time Redhat user, but I felt that Fedora was no longer stable enough for me. I was tempted to move to CENTOS but it didn’t feel right, not quite an ‘official’ Redhat release. So I decided on Ubuntu with KVM virtualization.

The transition was reasonably painless, a few adjustments to make, like using init.d instead of service. I made some notes for myself that others might find helpful:

Ubuntu Notes

Ubuntu KVM Host notes

Ubuntu KVM Guest notes

I have several virtual machines (including this webserver) hosted on a Xen Linux host. I wanted to be able to use the same linux configuration in my VMWare player on my desktop for testing.

Here are the rough steps that I went through to convert a linux guest that was on a LVM partition to a raw file on my Windows Desktop that the VMWare player could use.

Software: Redhat Fedora Core 6, Xen, LVM, VMWare Player 2.0.0

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Warning, Geek alert.

In order for the Wordpress emails to go out properly, I had to setup Sendmail to connect to my Internet Service Providers SMTP server.

More details after the cut.

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