XEN 4.11 on Debian 10

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Extended Setup with additional bpo linux-image

Setup for Hetzner dedicated Servers

In order to set up the XEN hypervisor on a newly set up Hetzner server, the following actions must be carried out. First edit /etc/apt/sources.list and add:

# buster backports
deb http://http.debian.net/debian buster-backports main

then:

apt update  
apt -y dist-upgrade
apt -y install htop mc rsync screen nload net-tools locate aptitude linux-headers-5.4.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 linux-support-5.4.0-0.bpo.2 linux-image-5.4.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 bash-completion xenstore-utils xen-utils-common xen-utils-4.11 xen-tools xen-hypervisor-4.11-amd64 libxenstore3.0 grub-xen-bin

adjust bootloader:

mv /etc/grub.d/10_linux /etc/grub.d/20_linux && mv /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen /etc/grub.d/10_linux_xen

Edit the file /etc/default/grub and replace the lines:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="nomodeset consoleblank=0"  
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

with:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="console=tty0 acpi=ht"  
GRUB_CMDLINE_XEN_DEFAULT="dom0_mem=512M dom0_max_vcpus=1"  
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

This gives Dom0 a vCPU and 512m RAM. These settings are sufficient for normal operation.
Finally, edit the file /etc/default/grub.d/xen.cfg and change the line:

# XEN_OVERRIDE_GRUB_DEFAULT=0

to

XEN_OVERRIDE_GRUB_DEFAULT=1

Now udate the Bootloader with new configuration:

update-grub2

Setup a networkbridge

An example standard configuration file from Hetzner can look like this:

### Hetzner Online GmbH installimage  

source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*  

auto lo  
iface lo inet loopback  
iface lo inet6 loopback  

auto enp34s0
iface enp34s0 inet static  
address 135.181.x.x  
netmask 255.255.255.192  
gateway 135.181.x.x

# route 135.181.3.0/26 via 135.181.3.1  
up route add -net 135.181.3.0 netmask 255.255.255.192 gw 135.181.3.1 dev enp34s0  

iface enp34s0 inet6 static  
address 2a01:4f9:4b:4fe6::2  
netmask 64

and should be changed according to this example as follows

### Hetzner Online GmbH installimage  

source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*  

auto lo  
iface lo inet loopback  
iface lo inet6 loopback  

allow-hotplug enp34s0  
iface enp34s0 inet manual  
iface enp34s0 inet6 manual  

auto br0  
iface br0 inet static  
address 135.181.3.25  
netmask 255.255.255.192  
gateway 135.181.3.1  
bridge_ports enp34s0  
bridge_stp off  

# route 135.181.3.0/26 via 135.181.3.1  
# up route add -net 135.181.3.0 netmask 255.255.255.192 gw 135.181.3.1 dev enp34s0  

iface br0 inet6 static  
address 2a01:4f9:4b:4fe6::2  
netmask 64

Thats all. Now reboot the server

reboot && exit