Windows VPS

Setting up

If the customer has bought a VPS with a Windows license, we need to do a few extra steps:

1. Log in to the physical node the customer has bought a VPS on.
2. The user's Xen account might not exist, so type something like useradd --home /var/lib/dtc-xen/ttyssh_home/xenXX -m -s /usr/bin/dtc-xen_userconsole -g xenusers xenXX where XX is the VPS number.
3. Type ln -s /usr/share/dtc-xen-hvm/Windows_*.iso /var/lib/dtc-xen/ttyssh_home/xenXX/ where XX is the VPS number.

Performing Windows Install for Customer

Each user is entitled to ask us to install Windows for them. We used to copy across a pre-created Windows disk image but this proved to be unreliable. Unfortunately, you will need to go through the same process as the user in order to install Windows on their VPS.

Signed Drivers

Signed PV drivers are available at Univention. We haven't tested these yet, but it would be useful for users that require a 64 bit Windows.

Network Config

If the network adapter is set to DHCP then the VPS will not have access to the internet, either inbound or outbound. The normal network card is a Xen one and needs to be set as a static IP for the specific IP for the user, and the Default Gateway and DNS servers as as on the IP Ranges page