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Revamping documentation

Overhaul the Xen pages on Debian’s wiki. Maybe write them in salsa’s wiki first? (Debian’s wiki has more complex syntax then salsa’s which is ‘simple’ mardown; I (diederik) am willing to do the conversion to Debian’s wiki in one big swoop)

  • What you need to get started
  • which program(s) to install manually
  • Storage solutions for the VM disks
  • others?
  • Creating and configuring a new VM
  • VM types (pv, pvh, hvm, others) and when to choose which
  • Creating a 32 bit domU on a 64 bit dom0?
  • Creating a VM for a different arch? (possible?)
  • PCI (and/or USB) pass-through: Can it work? In what situations? How to accomplish that
  • Networking configurations/options? (tips for net.ifnames woes)
  • Running your (new) VM
  • Connecting to and interacting with your VM via command line (ssh/serial/others?)
  • Connecting and interacting with your VM graphically (locally and over the network?)
  • Look at Qubes for other ideas?