Server Minimal Virtual Install
KVM install
Case ID: SVI-001
- Boot the CD from KVM
Press F4 and select Install a minimal virtual machine
- Choose your language, country and keyboard layout
Set default hostname: ubuntu
Partition disks: Guided use entire disk
- Select your time zone and set the system clock to UTC
- User account: enter username and password
- No software selection.
- Boot the newly created guest
- Log in
Check that the uname -r returns a -virtual kernel (on Lucid AMD64, it should return a -server; on i386 it will always install a -pae, see https://launchpad.net/bugs/227869):
uname -r
- Check that the linux-virtual package is installed:
dpkg -l linux-virtual
- Ping outside network
Check with the mount command that virtual disk are mount read-write
Check that the ubuntu-standard package is not installed:
dpkg -l ubuntu-standard
- Check that the size of the kernel modules is below 40M:
du -sh /lib/modules/
- Check that the size of the installed system is below 500M:
df -h
VMWare-ESX install
Case ID: SVI-002
- Boot the CD on a VMWare-ESX system
Press F4 and select Install a minimal virtual system
- Choose your language, country and keyboard layout
Set default hostname: ubuntu
Partition disks: Guided use entire disk
- Select your time zone and set the system clock to UTC
- User account: enter username and password
- No software selection.
- Boot the newly created guest
- Log in
Check that the uname -r returns a -virtual kernel:
uname -r
- Check that the linux-virtual package is installed:
dpkg -l linux-virtual
- Ping outside network
Check with the mount command that virtual disk are mount read-write
Check that the ubuntu-standard package is not installed:
dpkg -l ubuntu-standard
- Check that the size of the kernel modules is below 40M:
du -sh /lib/modules/
- Check that the size of the installed system is below 500M:
df -h
VMWare-Server install
Case ID: SVI-003
- Boot the CD from VMWare-Server
Press F4 and select Install a minimal virtual system
- Choose your language, country and keyboard layout
Set default hostname: ubuntu
Partition disks: Guided use entire disk
- Select your time zone and set the system clock to UTC
- User account: enter username and password
- No software selection.
- Boot the newly created guest
- Log in
Check that the uname -r returns a -server kernel:
uname -r
- Check that the linux-virtual package is installed:
dpkg -l linux-virtual
- Ping outside network
Check with the mount command that virtual disk are mount read-write
Check that the ubuntu-standard package is not installed:
dpkg -l ubuntu-standard