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Solusvm just released new version of VPS control panel 1.2.1o which support the custom kernel under xen pv.

” PyGrub support for Xen PV.
PyGrub enables you to start Linux DomUs with the kernels that lie in the filesystem of the DomU instead of with a Kernel that lies in the filesystem of the Dom0. This enables easier kernel update from DomU.” - http://blog.soluslabs.com/

So, how to setup your pygrub in centos and debian VPS? Please follow this instruction originated from Solusvm Wiki:
Inside the Debian VPS run this:

aptitude install linux-image-2.6-xen-amd64 grub
mkdir /boot/grub
echo “(hd0) /dev/sda” > /boot/grub/device.map
mknod /dev/sda b 202 0
update-grub

That’s it…

You can have your own kernel now.

Inside the CentOS VPS run:

yum install kernel-xen grub
ln -s /boot/grub/grub.conf /boot/grub/menu.lst

Once thats done you need to check the menu.lst and make sure it matches the kernel files inside /boot:
#ls -l /boot
total 7276
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 1209395 Jul 1 20:08 System.map-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5xen
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 66552 Jul 1 20:08 config-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5xen
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 14 10:39 grub
-rw——- 1 root root 2495715 Jul 14 10:38 initrd-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5xen.img
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 80032 Mar 16 2009 message
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 112259 Jul 1 20:09 symvers-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5xen.gz
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 2047941 Jul 1 20:08 vmlinuz-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5xen
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 969816 Jul 1 20:56 xen-syms-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 417433 Jul 1 18:58 xen.gz-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5

#cat /boot/grub/menu.lst
default=0
timeout=10
title vmlinuz-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5xen
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5xen console=xvc0 root=/dev/sda1 ro
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5xen.img

Ready to go…..

HVM or harware virtual machine is a platform virtualization technology that enables full virtualization using the assisted hardware from the host processors. Each HVM is fully virtualized and has a guaranteed amount of RAM, Bandwidth and Disk Space, fully isolated. You can customized your OS via VNC or our control panel in real time. The whole customization or OS installation process is done by you in a complete isolation! Normally the physical server contain only 4 ~ 5 HVM, depends on the capacity of each HVM. With this, you can even have install a virtualization platform in your HVM!

Existing supported OS:

CentOS 5.5 32bit

Debian 5 32bit

Fedora 13 32bit

Continue to add more ISO image from different distro.

We are launching this new product line effective from 10 July 2010 to the public.

The main reason  why we launch this product line is because many customers or potential customer is looking for custom kernel when at this moment not able to implement in Solusvm.

With this new launching, customer able to customize their own VPS is real time, starting from the booting of VPS from different linux distro ISO image. Customer need to login to our VPS control panel to start this visual OS customization by launching the java base VNC viewer.  From there, customer able to customize the package that they needs in real time, which is this different from the existing VPS under OS templates format.

We had recently ordered new server in Falkenstein, Germany. This is mainly the expansion plan to cover the customers from Europe countries. This will give better latency and reduce the route to EU countries.

With this expansion, we ordered server with Hetzner AG, one of the large dedicated hosting provider in Germany with full automation to the end user including of OS reload, emergency rescue….etc. Below is our server spec:

Server Spec
Intel® Core™ i7-920 Quadcore @ 2.66GHz with Hyper-Threading Technology
12 GB DDR3 RAM
1500 GB SATA-II HDD with RAID 1
1 GBit OnBoard NIC connected at 100 MBit (unfortunately Hetzner didn’t provide with 1GE, yet)

You can get the details of the server here http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/eq6/

With this expansion, we are now able to serve the EU customer who which to have closer VPS node to their base and we believe with this hardware node, we able to serve the needs of each customers!

Finally the new interface is published to the world and this eye candy expect to attract more visitors and new customers to join us.

” This time, our graphic designer has spent a lot of time to improve the website to be eye candy. Under the management close monitor, each of the graphic has been created manually by or graphic designer so that it can attract more customers. ” - CH Hosting Graphic Design Unit

So, give us your comment and feedback so that we can improve further from time to time. We are appreciate your input at all time.