Solus Virtual Manager (SolusVM) is a powerful GUI based VPS management system with full OpenVZ, Linux KVM, Xen Paravirtualization and Xen HVM support.
Notes before Installing
You CANNOT Install a SolusVM Master on a Xen/KVM Slave Directly, you can however install your Master on a Xen VPS which is hosted on this slave, it just cant be installed directly onto the slave
This Script should NEVER be used to upgrade SolusVM to the latest version, doing so will destroy your installation of SolusVM
DO NOT use this installer on servers that contain any other control panel (cPanel, Directadmin etc..) Always use a clean install of CentOS/RHEL/Scientific!
Requirements
Supported Host Operating Systems
CentOS 5/6
RHEL 5/6
Scientific Linux 5/6
Partitioning
Xen PV/HVM Host
/ 80GB+ (XEN templates & iso’s will be stored in /home/solusvm/xen)
SWAP 4GB max (Virtual servers won’t use the host swap)
Logical Volume Group (LVM) remaining space (Logical Volume Group Only, SolusVM will create the logical volumes for the virtual servers inside this group)
Please Note: The PE Size should be set to 32M not the Default of 4M
KVM Host
/ 80GB+ (KVM templates & iso’s will be stored in /home/solusvm/kvm)
SWAP 4GB+ (Virtual servers may use host swap if there is a real memory shortage)
Logical Volume Group (LVM) remaining space (Logical Volume Group Only, SolusVM will create the logical volumes for the virtual servers inside this group)
Please Note: The Volume Group Name CANNOT be KVM as /dev/kvm/ is a directory created on install
The PE Size should be set to 32M not the Default of 4M
OpenVZ Host
/ 10GB
SWAP 2 times RAM (if RAM ⇐2GB otherwise RAM + 2GB is plenty)
/vz remaining space (templates & virtual servers will be stored here)
Quick Install
If you don’t want to read the full installation guide and just want to get started, Here’s the commands you need.
wget http://soluslabs.com/installers/solusvm/install
chmod 755 install
./install
Installing a Master / Slave
In SSH as root do the following:
wget http://soluslabs.com/installers/solusvm/install
chmod 755 install
./install
Note
After running the last command a screen with various options will be presented to you, choose based on your requirements. You can install a master with no virtualization option in case you want your solusvm installation to be separate from your host nodes.
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