This document explains how to install and launch the Live* demo 1. To run the demo you will need a 64-bit machine with 64-bit Xen and Linux. You will also need libvirtd to be installed # uname -m x86_64 # cat /proc/xen/capabilities control_d # virsh list Id Name State ---------------------------------- 0 Domain-0 running 2. Also, you will need wxPython # rpm -qa | fgrep wx wxBase-2.8.9-1.fc8 wxBase-2.8.9-1.fc8 wxPython-2.8.9.1-1.fc8 wxGTK-gl-2.8.9-1.fc8 wxGTK-gl-2.8.9-1.fc8 wxGTK-2.8.9-1.fc8 wxGTK-2.8.9-1.fc8 3. Download files: demo-1.0-rc1.tbz2.1 demo-1.0-rc1.tbz2.2 demo-1.0-rc1.tbz2.3 4. Concatenate and unpack. You will need at least 3.5GB of disk space available for the demo. cat demo-1.0-rc1.tbz2.? | tar -tjvf - 5. Open launchpad.conf in an editor and add hostname and MAC address of your machine. 5. Go to the livestar-demo and launch the launchpad cd livestar-demo ./launchpad The launchpad command spills a lot of debugging output. You can focus on the GUI and ignore it for now. 6. Double-click on "Hardware" and select the amount of memory, swap and the size of the copy-up space. If you run the demo before you can also select the previous tagged copy-up image to avoid dynamic creation of a new empty image. Then return to the main panel. 7. Double-click on "Software" and select the "Fedora 9 Base" image and "Sun Java6u11" Then return to the main panel. 8. Double-click on "Properties" and check the "Additional Properties" and "Additional Files" box. Then click the "Find" button next to the "Additional Properties" checkbox. A dialog box will pop up. Browse the directory named "customization" and select the file "custom.props" Click OK. Then return to the main panel. 9. Double Click on "Disks" and select a the "../disk1.disk:1" entry. This is the first entry in the list. Then return to the main panel. 10. Go to the "Builder" menu at the top-left of the launchpad GUI and select "Launch" 11. The GUI will create a xen guest domain and start a vncviewer attached to the virtual frame buffer of this domain. 12. Once the guest domain boot completes, you can log in as root with password test123 13. Run the following command to verify that Sun Java 6 update 11 is installed: # java -version and: # javac -version These commands will verify that Sun java is indeed present in your system.