Users' Manual

Xen v3.0

0. Contents

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• • 1. Introduction
    • 1.1 Usage Scenarios
    • 1.2 Operating System Support
    • 1.3 Hardware Support
    • 1.4 Structure of a Xen-Based System
    • 1.5 History
    • 1.6 What's New
  
  
• 1 Installation
  • 2. Basic Installation
    • 2.1 Prerequisites
    • 2.2 Installing from Binary Tarball
    • 2.3 Installing from RPMs
    • 2.4 Installing from Source
    • 2.5 Configuration
    • 2.6 Booting Xen
  • 3. Booting a Xen System
    • 3.1 Booting Domain0
    • 3.2 Booting Guest Domains
    • 3.3 Starting / Stopping Domains Automatically
  
  
• 2 Configuration and Management
  • 4. Domain Management Tools
    • 4.1 Xend
    • 4.2 Xm
  • 5. Domain Configuration
    • 5.1 Configuration Files
    • 5.2 Network Configuration
  • 6. Storage and File System Management
    • 6.1 Exporting Physical Devices as VBDs
    • 6.2 Using File-backed VBDs
    • 6.3 Using LVM-backed VBDs
    • 6.4 Using NFS Root
  • 7. CPU Management
  • 8. Migrating Domains
    • 8.1 Domain Save and Restore
    • 8.2 Migration and Live Migration
  • 9. Securing Xen
    • 9.1 Xen Security Considerations
    • 9.2 Security Scenarios
  
  
• 3 Reference
  • 10. Build and Boot Options
    • 10.1 Top-level Configuration Options
    • 10.2 Xen Build Options
    • 10.3 Xen Boot Options
    • 10.4 XenLinux Boot Options
  • 11. Further Support
    • 11.1 Other Documentation
    • 11.2 Online References
    • 11.3 Mailing Lists
  • A. Unmodified (VMX) guest domains in Xen with Intel Virtualization Technology (VT)
    • A.1 Building Xen with VT support
    • A.2 Configuration file for unmodified VMX guests
    • A.3 Creating virtual disks from scratch
    • A.4 VMX Guests
  • B. Glossary of Terms

DISCLAIMER: This documentation is always under active development and as such there may be mistakes and omissions -- watch out for these and please report any you find to the developers' mailing list, [email protected]. The latest version is always available on-line. Contributions of material, suggestions and corrections are welcome.

Xen is Copyright (c) 2002-2005, University of Cambridge, UK, XenSource Inc., IBM Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Intel Corp., AMD Inc., and others. All rights reserved.

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