* With typical Wrox thoroughness, this book covers every aspect of virtualization on the Linux platform for administrators seeking to optimize the use of enterprise hardware, create virtual environments geared toward specific tasks, or establish a testing environment
* Provides a complete foundation in virtualization, XEN, and competing approaches with in-depth discussions of installing, configuring, and using XEN, including detailed examples of XEN configuration files, system configuration files, and system-level configuration information
* Offers details that help system administrator adopt XEN and justify its selection
* Covers optimizing XEN, XEN hosts, and guest operating systems for maximum performance and reliability; using XEN in enterprise data centers; procedures and considerations for building custom guest operating systems to run as virtual machines on a XEN host; and much more
Chapter 1: Overview of Virtualization
Chapter 2: Introduction to Xen
Chapter 3: Obtaining and Installing Xen
Chapter 4: Booting and Configuring a Xen Host
Chapter 5: Configuring and Booting Virtual Machines
Chapter 6: Building Filesystems for Virtual Machines
Chapter 7: Managing and Monitoring Virtual Machines
Chapter 8: Xen Networking
Chapter 9: Advanced Virtual Machine Configuration
Chapter 10: Using Xen in the Data Center