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Create your first VM in XCP-ng with Xen Orchestra CE step by step

 I made a tutorial that you can watch on my youtube channel HomeTinyLab.

▬ Contents of this video  ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬

0:00 - intro

0:23 - different ways to manage Xenserver overview

4:41 - SMB share to access iso install images

5:32 - logging in to Xen Orchestra

6:25 - adding the XCP-ng host

8:36 - defining ISO storage

11:28 - creating first VM

14:27 - installation process for Ubuntu live server

20:05 - installing xen tools on your new VM

22:21 - end word


Other videos to go to:

Installing XCP-ng https://youtu.be/FJh3yBrRuoc

Installing Xen Orchestra Community Edition https://youtu.be/bzwFg6qrUoI


For more information you can also use my blog https://hometinylab.blogspot.com/


Links to the software used in this video:

XCP-ng : https://xcp-ng.org/#easy-to-install

Xen Orchestra CE : https://github.com/ronivay/XenOrchestraInstallerUpdater

XCP-ng Center : https://github.com/xcp-ng/xenadmin/releases/tag/v20.04.01.33

TrueNAS CORE : https://www.truenas.com/download-tn-core/

Ubuntu live server : https://releases.ubuntu.com/20.04/

Putty : https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.html

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