Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 SP2 - VIRTUALIZATION WITH XEN Manual page 25

2 Each virtual machine must have a unique name. The name entered on this page
is used to create and name the virtual machine's configuration file. The configu-
ration file contains parameters that define the virtual machine and is saved to the
/etc/xen/vm/ directory.
3 The Hardware page allows you to specify the amount of memory and number of
virtual processors for your virtual machine.
Initial Memory
The amount of memory initially allocated to the virtual machine (specified
in megabytes).
Maximum Memory
The largest amount of memory the virtual machine will ever need.
Virtual Processors
If desired, you can specify that the virtual machine has more virtual CPUs
than the number of physical CPUs. You can specify up to 32 virtual CPUs:
however, for best performance, the number of virtual processors should be
less than or equal to the number of physical processors.
4 Select the graphics mode to use:
No Graphics Support
The virtual machine operates like a server without a monitor. You can access
the operating system through operating system supported services, such as
SSH or VNC.
Paravirtualized Graphics Adapter
Requires that an appropriate graphics driver is installed in the operating
system.
5 A virtual machine must have at least one virtual disk. Virtual disks can be:
• File backed, which means that the virtual disk is a single image file on a
larger physical disk.
• A sparse image file, which means that the virtual disk is a single image file,
but the space is not preallocated.
• Configured from a block device, such as an entire disk, partition, or volume.
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