IPFire as Xen (4.1) DomU

The following procedure is inspired by this article on the IPFire Wiki, as well as this article on the Panticz web site.
The directories locations that are used in this example are based on this wiki's Sample Configuration, but YMMV.
You should also read the README file, inside the ipfire/ directory that's extracted from the archive.

In case you didn't do so already, it is also recommended that you get at least the base concepts that IPFire relies on by ready through their website, you should, at the minimum, grasp the "colored" concept of the IPFire firewalling.

Also read this IPFire article to understand why it's recommended to install IPFire as a HVM.

Setting up a firewall implies having at least 2 physical NICs on the host machine.

Getting to the IPFire download page didn't provide us the link to the latest “scon” release… Let's have a look at the IPFire torrent tracker: BINGO ! we have a torrent for ipfire-2.17.1gb-ext4-scon.i586-full-core87.img.gz

Now use your favorite torrent app to download to the compressed image to your workstation, and transfer the image on your Xen Host.

> cd /directory/of/image/dowload/
> sftp root@<your_xen_host_ip>
sftp> cd /opt/xen/X-Local-ISO
sftp> put ipfire-2.17.1gb-ext4-scon.i586-full-core87.img.gz

Follow the procedure described in this wiki to create a dedicated VDI for the IPFire VM. But DO NOT PLUG THE VBD YET, as we'll first copy the IPFire image disk to it.

See deprecated method

> ssh root@<your.xen.host.ip>
> cd /opt/xen/X-Local-XVA
> wget http://downloads.ipfire.org/releases/ipfire-2.x/2.17-core87/ipfire-2.17.xen.i586-downloader-core87.tar.bz2
> tar -xjf ipfire-2.17.xen.i586-downloader-core87.tar.bz2