Xen Project 4.4 Man Pages
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Xen Project Configuration
Page | Description |
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Xen CLI | Command line options for Xen to be used in /boot/grub/grub.conf |
EFI | Configuring Xen to work with EFI. |
Xen Project Man Pages
Man page | Description | Console |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
PVH Information | Virtualization Mode | Using the new PVH virtualization mode. | Performance Blog post |
More documentation: | See Generated documents |
Developer Topics
Document(s) | Category | Description | Also See |
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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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