One of the nice things about Ubuntu Edgy Eft, is that there are packages available that make setting up Xen super easy.
Following the steps at the XenOnEdgy page at the Ubuntu Wiki, I quickly had an Edgy virtual machine (or a “domU” in Xen parlance) up and running. Unfortunately, the page doesn’t cover networking, but it’s actually pretty easy to add. I just added a simple /etc/network/interfaces file that set my machine up to use DHCP:
auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp
It’s amazing how many virtualization technologies are out there these days: