This page allows you to tell Cloudmin that an existing system it manages is
suitable for hosting VServer instances. To do this, the following fields must
be filled in :
- System hosting VServers
- From the menu you must select a physical system that has the software
installed and kernel patch required for VServers. Cloudmin does not yet have
the ability to install these packages automatically.
- Base directory for virtual systems
- Here you must enter a directory under which Xen instances will be created,
which must already exist on the selected host system. Because Xen instances
use a large amount of disk space (2GB or more each), you should choose
a local directory with plenty of space.
- Add VServer systems to DNS domain
- If the master Cloudmin system runs a DNS server, this field will show a menu
of local DNS domains to which the hostname of newly created VServer instances
will be added. It is highly recommended that you setup a DNS server and make sure it can be managed through Webmin before using VServers and Cloudmin, so that
new instances will have resolvable hostnames.
- IP address allocation range
- When a VServer instance is created, Cloudmin can assign an IP address for it
automatically. The IP will be taken from the range you enter in this field,
by finding addresses that are not in use by any other virtual system and
do not respond to pings.
- Base network interface
- By default, Cloudmin will create VServers instances whose network interfaces
are a virtual interface on the host's primary ethernet eth0.
If this host has multiple interfaces, you can enter a different
name here, like eth1 or ppp0.
- Distribution to install on VServers
- When VServer instances are created by the traditional manual installation
process, it is possible to select which Linux distribution to install.
If your VServer host runs Debian or Ubuntu you have a choice of their
distributions, such as sarge and edgy, which on Fedora
you can select a core release such as fc5 or fc6.
When Decide automatically is selected, new VServers will
be created with the same distribution as the host system. Otherwise you
can select a distro by entering one of the aforementioned distribution
names here.
- Packages to install on VServers
- When VServer instances are created by the traditional process (rather than
from a Cloudmin system image), they typically have very few packages installed
apart from those needed for the base operating system. You can choose to
have additional packages installed by selecting them using the checkboxes
in this field.