Virtual Environment Platform Setup

This wiki is currently dedicated at login information regarding the deployment of a virtual environment platform on a Clevo H150RW laptop.

As the hypervisor layer, we'll first try to setup a Debian Wheezy (7.4.0) base OS using Xen and virt-manager.
Later, for production server deployment, we might try to go for some other configuration, in particular using oVirt will be one of our goals.

The latest Debian installer was used, booted from a USB stick.
In case you have no idea how to make a bootable Debian installer USB stick, please refer to the Debian documentation on the subject, our attempt was made using the latest netboot mini.iso image.

We won't go into the details of installing Debian, following are simply a few notes that might be of interest during this step.

Although choosing the right desktop environment shouldn't be a main preoccupation, we decided to go for KDE on our first trial install.

Also, you might want to add some proprietary drivers on the the space that is left free on your USB key. In our case, the Realtek WiFi interface required the rtlwifi/rtl8192cfw.bin package to be present.