Hi Jim,
hope you enjoyed your vacations :-)
On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 04:02:54PM -0600, Jim Fehlig wrote:
> Attached is an updated patch providing some support for HVM guests. I
> have tested listing info on running guests and creating guests. cdrom
> support for HVM guests still needs some work, as does graphics options.
> Guests using graphics type 'sdl' still need some work. Using type 'vnc'
> is functional, but you must then manually use e.g. "vncviewer
> localhost:<dom_id>" to view.
Okay, I have been looking at it in the last couple of days
I have changed the XML description slightly in the os part:
- instead stating that hvmloader is a kernel, well I used a
<loader>/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader</loader>
loader tag intead, contrary to the non HVM version the kernel
doesn't point to a kernel file, so better rename to what it actually is
- second the device_model is really a device emulator, better placed
in the <devices> section so it is moved there as
<emulator>/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm</emulator>
I have made changes to the XML conversion code to reflect this, I will commit
whithin one hour or two. Attached is one example of the XML for HVM.
> I've also included a patch that backs out some optimizations done
> xend_internal.c. There is a bug in xend (from testing - I think Anthony
> fixed it and patch got applied to unstable) that does not close the
> connection after initial create op causing libvirt to block
> indefinitely. Backing out the optimizations allowed me to use the hvm
> patch on _testing branch of xen. I've included it for anyone else that
> may want to experiment with the hvm patch on _testing xen.
Okay I applied it, it is clearly identified and we can revert it later,
more likely this current code will die slowly when converted to XML-RPC.
> Finally, the attached archive contains: 1. a sample xml input file for
> hvm guest, 2. corresponding s-expr sent to xend, and 3. s-expr returned
> from xend when getting info on the running guest.
Thanks, that helped a lot :-)
Daniel
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<domain type='xen' id='3'>
<name>fv0</name>
<uuid>4dea22b31d52d8f32516782e98ab3fa0</uuid>
<os>
<type>hvm</type>
<loader>/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader</loader>
<boot dev='hda'/>
</os>
<memory>524288</memory>
<vcpu>1</vcpu>
<on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff>
<on_reboot>restart</on_reboot>
<on_crash>restart</on_crash>
<devices>
<emulator>/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm</emulator>
<interface type='bridge'>
<source bridge='xenbr0'/>
<mac address='00:16:3e:5d:c7:9e'/>
<script path='vif-bridge'/>
</interface>
<disk type='file'>
<source file='/root/fv0'/>
<target dev='ioemu:hda'/>
</disk>
<graphics type='vnc'/>
</devices>
</domain>