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Requirements

  • XenServer (6.* | 7.* | 8. *)
  • Yum
Note
  • XenServer (6.2 / 6.5 / 7.1 / 7.2) needs to be installed before Virtualizor will be installed on that.
  • Before installing virtualizor on Xenserver 6.5 you will require to disable cirtix repo to start virtualizor installation.
    You can disable repo(For Xenserver 6.5 only) with following command from "CLI":
sed -i 's/^enabled=1/enabled=0/' /etc/yum.repos.d/Citrix.repo
  • After installation of virtualizor is completed you can enable it.
    You can enable repo(For Xenserver 6.5 only) with following command from "CLI":
sed -i 's/^enabled=0/enabled=1/' /etc/yum.repos.d/Citrix.repo
  • Before installing virtualizor on Xenserver 7.1
    you will require to enable Centos-Base repo to start virtualizor installation. You can enable repo(For Xenserver 7.1 and above only) with following command from "CLI":
sed -i 's/^enabled=0/enabled=1/' /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo
  • After installation of virtualizor is completed you can disable it.
    You can disable repo(For Xenserver 7.1 and above only) with following command from "CLI":
sed -i 's/^enabled=1/enabled=0/' /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo

Partition Scheme

XenServer does not allow you to change the partition scheme much. When XenServer is installed it will be installed with 4GB space for the OS and the remaining will be assigned to a LVM Volume Group. Virtualizor will use the Volume Group for the VMs being created.

Supported storage types

  • ( LVM | File | Thin LVM | ZFS | ZFS Thin | ZFS Compressed | ZFS Thin Compressed )

Installation

Open a Shell Terminal (e.g. PuTTY) and SSH to your server. Run the following commands:

wget -N http://files.virtualizor.com/install.sh
chmod 0755 install.sh
./install.sh email=your@email.com kernel=xcp lvg=VOLUME_GROUP_NAME repo_size=SIZE

Installation Parameters

Please give the email address correctly !

  • email - The Admin Email Address
  • kernel - In this case its xcp
  • lvg - If you are going to use LVM for the VPS storage. The Volume Group that will be used for the DomU (VPS) storage e.g. defaults to vg. It should have some OR ALL unallocated space to create LVMs for the VPS.
  • repo_size - The size of the Template Repository in GB (Should be numeric only). Where all the Templates are stored. (Recommended size is 100).
    If you do not want to create the repository then pass the repo_size=no as a parameter
  • virtmedia_VG (optional) - If you have more then two repository, you can use either repository to be used for the virtualizor media.
  • noos (optional) - If you don't want to download the OS template for the VPS then add noos=true as a parameter
  • beta (optional) - If there is a newer version of Virtualizor available and you would like to test it then please add beta=true as a parameter
  • license (optional) - In case you are installing Virtualizor on internal network you will need to provide the VALID license key. To get internal license key you will need to open a support ticket.

The installation will begin immediately. It may seem that the installation has stopped, if your network speed is slow, but please let it continue. You will see something like this : 

-----------------------------------------------
 Welcome to Softaculous Virtualizor Installer
-----------------------------------------------

1) Installing Libraries and Dependencies
2) Installing PHP, MySQL and Web Server
3) Downloading and Installing Virtualizor
                - Configuring Virtualizor
                - Fetching License
                - Setting up the CRON Job
                - Importing Database
                - Getting List of OS templates
                - Generating the SSL Certificates
4) Installing the Virtualization Kernel - xcp
-------------------------------------
 Installation Completed 
-------------------------------------
Congratulations, Virtualizor has been successfully installed
 
API KEY : havkrq0b8skwiaxgtpxh3rehxo9lhalu
API Password : j1zpjzzxzhbnuavxgu6nijbslan2wxj3 
 
You can login to the Virtualizor Admin Panel
using your ROOT details at the following URL :
https://━━.━━.━━.━━:4085/
OR
http://━━.━━.━━.━━:4084/
 
You will need to reboot this machine to load the correct kernel


After the installation is completed you will be asked to reboot. 

You will need to reboot this machine to load the correct kernel
Do you want to reboot now ? [y/N] ┃
Note
You can then visit the Admin Panel to create the Storage and the Virtual Servers and also manage your server. A log file of the installation process will be created - /root/virtualizor.log

Login

To login to the Softaculous Virtualizor Admin Panel, visit the following URL


https://Your-Server-IP:4085/
http://Your-Server-IP:4084/


Login with the servers root details.

login

Admin Panel

After you login, you will see the Admin Panel Dashboard :

image

Ports

Virtualizor uses ports from 4081 - 4085. If there is any firewall restricting this, you will need to allow these ports.

For RHEL & CentOS < 7

iptables -I INPUT 1 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 4081:4085 -j ACCEPT

iptables -I INPUT 2 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 5900:6000 -j ACCEPT

For RHEL & CentOS 7+

firewall-cmd --zone=public --permanent --add-port=4081-4085/tcp

firewall-cmd --zone=public --permanent --add-port=5900-6000/tcp

firewall-cmd --reload
Note
If you are going to use Webuzo templates for VM creation, please allow ports 2002-2005
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