Xen 4.3 Man Pages

 

To Do: 4.3-testing has not been created yet at the time this document was written, thus most URL's will probably break. Also, new documents will not yet have been added. Also, add missing documents.

Xen Man Pages

Man page	Description	Console
xl(1)	Xen management tool, based on LibXenlight	XL
xm(1)	Xen management user interface (deprecated, also see Xen 4.1 Upgrade Notes)	XM
xend-config.sxp(5)	Xen daemon configuration file (deprecated, also see Xen 4.1 Upgrade Notes)	XM
xl.cfg(5)	XL Domain Configuration File Syntax: to create a VM (a domain in Xen terminology, sometimes called a guest) with xl requires the provision of a domain config file.	XL
xl.conf(5)	XL Global/Host Configuration: allows configuration of hostwide xl toolstack options	XL
xlcpupool.cfg(5)	XL Cpupool Configuration File Syntax: to create a Cpupool with xl requires the provision of a cpupool config file.	XL
xmdomain.cfg(5)	XM domain config file format (deprecated, also see Xen 4.1 Upgrade Notes)	XM
xentop(1)	xentop displays information about the Xen system and domains, in a continually-updating manner.	XENTOP
xenpm(1)	Xenpm is a userspace tool that can list the power information of available processors and control the power policy according to users' preference.	XENPM

Supporting Documents for XL & XM

Document	Description
xl.cfg(5), disk configuration	This document specifies the xl config file format disk configuration option.
xl.cfg(5), network configuration	This document specifies the xl config file format vif configuration option.
xl.cfg(5), tsc_mode configuration	In Xen 4 a new config option called tsc_mode may be specified for each domain. This document is targeted for Xen users and administrators that may need to select a non-default tsc_mode.
xm.cfg(5), sEDF scheduler	The sEDF scheduler provides weighted CPU sharing in an intuitive way and uses realtime-algorithms to ensure time guarantees.
xl-numa.cfg(5), Guest Automatic NUMA placement in LIBXL and XL	This document describes the automatic placement options for NUMA hardware in XL.

Advanced Topics

Document(s)	Category	Description	Also See
Environment Variables for different Linux distros	Distros	With directory layout differences between Red Hat, Debian, Suse and other distros one needs to set the variables for CONFIG_LEAF_DIR, SUBSYS_DIR and INITD_DIR.	Distros
Distro directory layouts	Distros	Overview of the differences in directory layout between RHEL, Debian and Suse.	Distros
How to do PCI Passthrough with VT-d	PCI Passthrough		VGA Xen PCI Passthrough Overview, VT-d HowTo
Virtual TPM support	Security	This document gives a short introduction to the virtual TPM support in XEN and goes as far as connecting a user domain to a virtual TPM instance and doing a short test to verify success. It is assumed that the user is fairly familiar with compiling and installing XEN and Linux on a machine.	Security Virtual Trusted Platform Module (research note)
Qemu Upstream: How to use it	QEMU	Pointer to a wiki page documenting how to build XXen with the QEMU unstable tree.
sEDF scheduler how to	Scheduler / Performance	Using the SsEDF scheduler for weighted CPU sharing.	Performance
XL placement	Performance	NUMA Node placement.	Performance NUMA
VT-d HOWTO	PCI Passthrough	How to use Intel's VT-d extensions.	VGA
XSM/FLASK Configuration	Security	Configuring Xen to use the XSM/FLASK mandatory access control framework	Security XSM-FLASK
Xen Hypervisor Command Line Options	???	List of hypervisor command line options
EFI	???	Configuring Xen to work with EFI.
More documentation:		See Generated documents

Developer Topics

Document(s)	Category	Description	Also See
Kexec, and kdump for Xen	Developers	Guide to using kexec to switch to a new kernel; and kdump for catching a dump image, with Xen.	Developers
Xen Core Dump Format	Developers	Format of the output of the x{m,l} core-dump command	Developers
Xen Guest Disk (VBD) interface	Developers	The interface exposed to DomUs for communicating with block devices.	Developers
Xenstore Protocol Definition	Developers	Definition of standard behaviour, when using Xenstore.	Developers
A rough introduction to using grant tables	Developers	Explanation of the data structures, and hypercalls required to share memory between domains.	Developers
Xen Error Handling	Developers	Explanation of the various types of error (BUG, ASSERT etc) that the hypervisor, and guest can call.	Developers
Xen HVM emulated device unplug protocol	Developers	Definition of the protocol used to disconnect emulated deivces, get log messages from drivers, and prevent Dom0 from loading specific drivers.	Developers
Xen paging	Developers	Allow the sum of memory allocated to guests > physical memory available, by paging out.	Developers
Xen Crash Debugger	Developers	Using gdb to analyse why Xen has crashed.	Developers

Also See

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