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1: Introduction 2: ============ 3: 4: [![[Xen 5: screenshot]](http://www.netbsd.org/gallery/in-Action/hubertf-xens.png)](../../gallery/in-Action/hubertf-xen.png) 6: 7: Xen is a virtual machine monitor or hypervisor for x86 hardware 8: (i686-class or higher), which supports running multiple guest 9: operating systems on a single physical machine. With Xen, one uses 10: the Xen kernel to control the CPU, memory and console, a dom0 11: operating system which mediates access to other hardware (e.g., disks, 12: network, USB), and one or more domU operating systems which operate in 13: an unprivileged virtualized environment. IO requests from the domU 14: systems are forwarded by the hypervisor (Xen) to the dom0 to be 15: fulfilled. 16: 17: Xen supports two styles of guests. The original is Para-Virtualized 18: (PV) which means that the guest OS does not attempt to access hardware 19: directly, but instead makes hypercalls to the hypervisor. This is 20: analogous to a user-space program making system calls. (The dom0 21: operating system uses PV calls for some functions, such as updating 22: memory mapping page tables, but has direct hardware access for disk 23: and network.) PV guests must be specifically coded for Xen. 24: 25: The more recent style is HVM, which means that the guest does not have 26: code for Xen and need not be aware that it is running under Xen. 27: Attempts to access hardware registers are trapped and emulated. This 28: style is less efficient but can run unmodified guests. 29: 30: At boot, the dom0 kernel is loaded as module with Xen as the kernel. 31: The dom0 can start one or more domUs. (Booting is explained in detail 32: in the dom0 section.) 33: 34: NetBSD supports Xen in that it can serve as dom0, be used as a domU, 35: and that Xen kernels and tools are available in pkgsrc. This HOWTO 36: attempts to address both the case of running a NetBSD dom0 on hardware 37: and running NetBSD as a domU in a VPS. 38: 39: Prerequisites 40: ------------- 41: 42: Installing NetBSD/Xen is not extremely difficult, but it is more 43: complex than a normal installation of NetBSD. 44: In general, this HOWTO is occasionally overly restrictive about how 45: things must be done, guiding the reader to stay on the established 46: path when there are no known good reasons to stray. 47: 48: This HOWTO presumes a basic familiarity with the Xen system 49: architecture. This HOWTO presumes familiarity with installing NetBSD 50: on i386/amd64 hardware and installing software from pkgsrc. 51: See also the [Xen website](http://www.xen.org/). 52: 53: Versions of Xen and NetBSD 54: ========================== 55: 56: Most of the installation concepts and instructions are independent of 57: Xen version. This section gives advice on which version to choose. 58: Versions not in pkgsrc and older unsupported versions of NetBSD are 59: inentionally ignored. 60: 61: Xen 62: --- 63: 64: In NetBSD, xen is provided in pkgsrc, via matching pairs of packages 65: xenkernel and xentools. We will refer only to the kernel versions, 66: but note that both packages must be installed together and must have 67: matching versions. 68: 69: xenkernel3 and xenkernel33 provide Xen 3.1 and 3.3. These no longer 70: receive security patches and should not be used. 71: 72: xenkernel41 provides Xen 4.1. This is no longer maintained by Xen, 73: but as of 2014-12 receives backported security patches. It is a 74: reasonable although trailing-edge choice. 75: 76: xenkernel42 provides Xen 4.2. This is maintained by Xen, but old as 77: of 2014-12. 78: 79: Ideally newer versions of Xen will be added to pkgsrc. 80: 81: NetBSD 82: ------ 83: 84: The netbsd-5, netbsd-6, netbsd-7, and -current branches are all 85: reasonable choices, with more or less the same considerations for 86: non-Xen use. Therefore, netbsd-6 is recommended as the stable version 87: of the most recent release. 88: 89: As of NetBSD 6, a NetBSD domU will support multiple vcpus. There is 90: no SMP support for NetBSD as dom0. (The dom0 itself doesn't really 91: need SMP; the lack of support is really a problem when using a dom0 as 92: a normal computer.) 93: 94: Architecture 95: ------------ 96: 97: Xen is basically amd64 only at this point. One can either run i386 98: domains or amd64 domains. If running i386, PAE versions are required, 99: for both dom0 and domU. These versions are built by default in NetBSD 100: releases. While i386 dom0 works fine, amd64 is recommended as more 101: normal. (Note that emacs (at least) fails if run on i386 with PAE when 102: built without, and vice versa, presumably due to bugs in the undump 103: code.) 104: 105: Recommendation 106: -------------- 107: 108: Therefore, this HOWTO recommends running xenkernel42 (and xentools42), 109: the NetBSD 6 stable branch, and to use amd64 as the dom0. Either the 110: i386 or amd64 of NetBSD may be used as domUs. 111: 112: NetBSD as a dom0 113: ================ 114: 115: NetBSD can be used as a dom0 and works very well. The following 116: sections address installation, updating NetBSD, and updating Xen. 117: 118: Styles of dom0 operation 119: ------------------------ 120: 121: There are two basic ways to use Xen. The traditional method is for 122: the dom0 to do absolutely nothing other than providing support to some 123: number of domUs. Such a system was probably installed for the sole 124: purpose of hosting domUs, and sits in a server room on a UPS. 125: 126: The other way is to put Xen under a normal-usage computer, so that the 127: dom0 is what the computer would have been without Xen, perhaps a 128: desktop or laptop. Then, one can run domUs at will. Purists will 129: deride this as less secure than the previous approach, and for a 130: computer whose purpose is to run domUs, they are right. But Xen and a 131: dom0 (without domUs) is not meaingfully less secure than the same 132: things running without Xen. One can boot Xen or boot regular NetBSD 133: alternately with little problems, simply refraining from starting the 134: Xen daemons when not running Xen. 135: 136: Note that NetBSD as dom0 does not support multiple CPUs. This will 137: limit the performance of the Xen/dom0 workstation approach. 138: 139: Installation of NetBSD and Xen 140: ------------------------------ 141: 142: Note that it doesn't make sense to talk about installing a dom0 OS 143: without also installing Xen itself. 144: 145: First do a NetBSD/i386 or NetBSD/amd64 146: [installation](../../docs/guide/en/chap-inst.html) of the 5.1 release 147: (or newer) as you usually do on x86 hardware. The binary releases are 148: available from [](ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/). Binary snapshots 149: for current and the stable branches are available on daily autobuilds. 150: If you plan to use the `grub` boot loader, when partitioning the disk 151: you have to make the root partition smaller than 512Mb, and formatted as 152: FFSv1 with 8k block/1k fragments. If the partition is larger than this, 153: uses FFSv2 or has different block/fragment sizes, grub may fail to load 154: some files. Also keep in mind that you'll probably want to provide 155: virtual disks to other domains, so reserve some partitions for these 156: virtual disks. Alternatively, you can create large files in the file 157: system, map them to vnd(4) devices and export theses vnd devices to 158: other domains. 159: 160: Next step is to install the Xen packages via pkgsrc or from binary 161: packages. See [the pkgsrc 162: documentation](http://www.NetBSD.org/docs/pkgsrc/) if you are unfamiliar 163: with pkgsrc and/or handling of binary packages. Xen 3.1, 3.3, 4.1 and 164: 4.2 are available. 3.1 supports PCI pass-through while other versions do 165: not. You'll need either `sysutils/xentools3` and `sysutils/xenkernel3` 166: for Xen 3.1, `sysutils/xentools33` and `sysutils/xenkernel33` for Xen 167: 3.3, `sysutils/xentools41` and `sysutils/xenkernel41` for Xen 4.1. or 168: `sysutils/xentools42` and `sysutils/xenkernel42` for Xen 4.2. You'll 169: also need `sysutils/grub` if you plan do use the grub boot loader. If 170: using Xen 3.1, you may also want to install `sysutils/xentools3-hvm` 171: which contains the utilities to run unmodified guests OSes using the 172: *HVM* support (for later versions this is included in 173: `sysutils/xentools`). Note that your CPU needs to support this. Intel 174: CPUs must have the 'VT' instruction, AMD CPUs the 'SVM' instruction. You 175: can easily find out if your CPU support HVM by using NetBSD's cpuctl 176: command: 177: 178: # cpuctl identify 0 179: cpu0: Intel Core 2 (Merom) (686-class), id 0x6f6 180: cpu0: features 0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR> 181: cpu0: features 0xbfebfbff<PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX> 182: cpu0: features 0xbfebfbff<FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF> 183: cpu0: features2 0x4e33d<SSE3,DTES64,MONITOR,DS-CPL,,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,DCA> 184: cpu0: features3 0x20100800<SYSCALL/SYSRET,XD,EM64T> 185: cpu0: "Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 5130 @ 2.00GHz" 186: cpu0: I-cache 32KB 64B/line 8-way, D-cache 32KB 64B/line 8-way 187: cpu0: L2 cache 4MB 64B/line 16-way 188: cpu0: ITLB 128 4KB entries 4-way 189: cpu0: DTLB 256 4KB entries 4-way, 32 4MB entries 4-way 190: cpu0: Initial APIC ID 0 191: cpu0: Cluster/Package ID 0 192: cpu0: Core ID 0 193: cpu0: family 06 model 0f extfamily 00 extmodel 00 194: 195: Depending on your CPU, the feature you are looking for is called HVM, 196: SVM or VMX. 197: 198: Next you need to copy the selected Xen kernel itself. pkgsrc installed 199: them under `/usr/pkg/xen*-kernel/`. The file you're looking for is 200: `xen.gz`. Copy it to your root file system. `xen-debug.gz` is a kernel 201: with more consistency checks and more details printed on the serial 202: console. It is useful for debugging crashing guests if you use a serial 203: console. It is not useful with a VGA console. 204: 205: You'll then need a NetBSD/Xen kernel for *domain0* on your root file 206: system. The XEN3PAE\_DOM0 kernel or XEN3\_DOM0 provided as part of the 207: i386 or amd64 binaries is suitable for this, but you may want to 208: customize it. Keep your native kernel around, as it can be useful for 209: recovery. *Note:* the *domain0* kernel must support KERNFS and `/kern` 210: must be mounted because *xend* needs access to `/kern/xen/privcmd`. 211: 212: Next you need to get a bootloader to load the `xen.gz` kernel, and the 213: NetBSD *domain0* kernel as a module. This can be `grub` or NetBSD's boot 214: loader. Below is a detailled example for grub, see the boot.cfg(5) 215: manual page for an example using the latter. 216: 217: This is also where you'll specify the memory allocated to *domain0*, the 218: console to use, etc ... 219: 220: Here is a commented `/grub/menu.lst` file: 221: 222: #Grub config file for NetBSD/xen. Copy as /grub/menu.lst and run 223: # grub-install /dev/rwd0d (assuming your boot device is wd0). 224: # 225: # The default entry to load will be the first one 226: default=0 227: 228: # boot the default entry after 10s if the user didn't hit keyboard 229: timeout=10 230: 231: # Configure serial port to use as console. Ignore if you'll use VGA only 232: serial --unit=0 --speed=115200 --word=8 --parity=no --stop=1 233: 234: # Let the user select which console to use (serial or VGA), default 235: # to serial after 10s 236: terminal --timeout=10 serial console 237: 238: # An entry for NetBSD/xen, using /netbsd as the domain0 kernel, and serial 239: # console. Domain0 will have 64MB RAM allocated. 240: # Assume NetBSD is installed in the first MBR partition. 241: title Xen 3 / NetBSD (hda0, serial) 242: root(hd0,0) 243: kernel (hd0,a)/xen.gz dom0_mem=65536 com1=115200,8n1 244: module (hd0,a)/netbsd bootdev=wd0a ro console=ttyS0 245: 246: # Same as above, but using VGA console 247: # We can use console=tty0 (Linux syntax) or console=pc (NetBSD syntax) 248: title Xen 3 / NetBSD (hda0, vga) 249: root(hd0,0) 250: kernel (hd0,a)/xen.gz dom0_mem=65536 251: module (hd0,a)/netbsd bootdev=wd0a ro console=tty0 252: 253: # NetBSD/xen using a backup domain0 kernel (in case you installed a 254: # nonworking kernel as /netbsd 255: title Xen 3 / NetBSD (hda0, backup, serial) 256: root(hd0,0) 257: kernel (hd0,a)/xen.gz dom0_mem=65536 com1=115200,8n1 258: module (hd0,a)/netbsd.backup bootdev=wd0a ro console=ttyS0 259: title Xen 3 / NetBSD (hda0, backup, VGA) 260: root(hd0,0) 261: kernel (hd0,a)/xen.gz dom0_mem=65536 262: module (hd0,a)/netbsd.backup bootdev=wd0a ro console=tty0 263: 264: #Load a regular NetBSD/i386 kernel. Can be useful if you end up with a 265: #nonworking /xen.gz 266: title NetBSD 5.1 267: root (hd0,a) 268: kernel --type=netbsd /netbsd-GENERIC 269: 270: #Load the NetBSD bootloader, letting it load the NetBSD/i386 kernel. 271: #May be better than the above, as grub can't pass all required infos 272: #to the NetBSD/i386 kernel (e.g. console, root device, ...) 273: title NetBSD chain 274: root (hd0,0) 275: chainloader +1 276: 277: ## end of grub config file. 278: 279: 280: Install grub with the following command: 281: 282: # grub --no-floppy 283: 284: grub> root (hd0,a) 285: Filesystem type is ffs, partition type 0xa9 286: 287: grub> setup (hd0) 288: Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no 289: Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... yes 290: Checking if "/grub/stage2" exists... yes 291: Checking if "/grub/ffs_stage1_5" exists... yes 292: Running "embed /grub/ffs_stage1_5 (hd0)"... 14 sectors are embedded. 293: succeeded 294: Running "install /grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+14 p (hd0,0,a)/grub/stage2 /grub/menu.lst"... 295: succeeded 296: Done. 297: 298: 299: Updating NetBSD in a dom0 300: ------------------------- 301: 302: This is just like updating NetBSD on bare hardware, assuming the new 303: version supports the version of Xen you are running. Generally, one 304: replaces the kernel and reboots, and then overlays userland binaries 305: and adjusts /etc. 306: 307: Note that one must update both the non-Xen kernel typically used for 308: rescue purposes and the DOM0 kernel used with Xen. 309: 310: Updating Xen versions 311: --------------------- 312: 313: TODO: write 314: 315: Creating unprivileged domains (domU) 316: ==================================== 317: 318: Creating domUs is almost entirely independent of operating system. We 319: first explain NetBSD, and then differences for Linux and Solaris. 320: 321: Creating an unprivileged NetBSD domain (domU) 322: --------------------------------------------- 323: 324: Once you have *domain0* running, you need to start the xen tool daemon 325: (`/usr/pkg/share/examples/rc.d/xend start`) and the xen backend daemon 326: (`/usr/pkg/share/examples/rc.d/xenbackendd start` for Xen3\*, 327: `/usr/pkg/share/examples/rc.d/xencommons start` for Xen4.\*). Make sure 328: that `/dev/xencons` and `/dev/xenevt` exist before starting `xend`. You 329: can create them with this command: 330: 331: # cd /dev && sh MAKEDEV xen 332: 333: xend will write logs to `/var/log/xend.log` and 334: `/var/log/xend-debug.log`. You can then control xen with the xm tool. 335: 'xm list' will show something like: 336: 337: # xm list 338: Name Id Mem(MB) CPU State Time(s) Console 339: Domain-0 0 64 0 r---- 58.1 340: 341: 'xm create' allows you to create a new domain. It uses a config file in 342: PKG\_SYSCONFDIR for its parameters. By default, this file will be in 343: `/usr/pkg/etc/xen/`. On creation, a kernel has to be specified, which 344: will be executed in the new domain (this kernel is in the *domain0* file 345: system, not on the new domain virtual disk; but please note, you should 346: install the same kernel into *domainU* as `/netbsd` in order to make 347: your system tools, like MAN.SAVECORE.8, work). A suitable kernel is 348: provided as part of the i386 and amd64 binary sets: XEN3\_DOMU. 349: 350: Here is an /usr/pkg/etc/xen/nbsd example config file: 351: 352: # -*- mode: python; -*- 353: #============================================================================ 354: # Python defaults setup for 'xm create'. 355: # Edit this file to reflect the configuration of your system. 356: #============================================================================ 357: 358: #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 359: # Kernel image file. This kernel will be loaded in the new domain. 360: kernel = "/home/bouyer/netbsd-XEN3_DOMU" 361: #kernel = "/home/bouyer/netbsd-INSTALL_XEN3_DOMU" 362: 363: # Memory allocation (in megabytes) for the new domain. 364: memory = 128 365: 366: # A handy name for your new domain. This will appear in 'xm list', 367: # and you can use this as parameters for xm in place of the domain 368: # number. All domains must have different names. 369: # 370: name = "nbsd" 371: 372: # The number of virtual CPUs this domain has. 373: # 374: vcpus = 1 375: 376: #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 377: # Define network interfaces for the new domain. 378: 379: # Number of network interfaces (must be at least 1). Default is 1. 380: nics = 1 381: 382: # Define MAC and/or bridge for the network interfaces. 383: # 384: # The MAC address specified in ``mac'' is the one used for the interface 385: # in the new domain. The interface in domain0 will use this address XOR'd 386: # with 00:00:00:01:00:00 (i.e. aa:00:00:51:02:f0 in our example). Random 387: # MACs are assigned if not given. 388: # 389: # ``bridge'' is a required parameter, which will be passed to the 390: # vif-script called by xend(8) when a new domain is created to configure 391: # the new xvif interface in domain0. 392: # 393: # In this example, the xvif is added to bridge0, which should have been 394: # set up prior to the new domain being created -- either in the 395: # ``network'' script or using a /etc/ifconfig.bridge0 file. 396: # 397: vif = [ 'mac=aa:00:00:50:02:f0, bridge=bridge0' ] 398: 399: #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 400: # Define the disk devices you want the domain to have access to, and 401: # what you want them accessible as. 402: # 403: # Each disk entry is of the form: 404: # 405: # phy:DEV,VDEV,MODE 406: # 407: # where DEV is the device, VDEV is the device name the domain will see, 408: # and MODE is r for read-only, w for read-write. You can also create 409: # file-backed domains using disk entries of the form: 410: # 411: # file:PATH,VDEV,MODE 412: # 413: # where PATH is the path to the file used as the virtual disk, and VDEV 414: # and MODE have the same meaning as for ``phy'' devices. 415: # 416: # VDEV doesn't really matter for a NetBSD guest OS (it's just used as an index), 417: # but it does for Linux. 418: # Worse, the device has to exist in /dev/ of domain0, because xm will 419: # try to stat() it. This means that in order to load a Linux guest OS 420: # from a NetBSD domain0, you'll have to create /dev/hda1, /dev/hda2, ... 421: # on domain0, with the major/minor from Linux :( 422: # Alternatively it's possible to specify the device number in hex, 423: # e.g. 0x301 for /dev/hda1, 0x302 for /dev/hda2, etc ... 424: 425: disk = [ 'phy:/dev/wd0e,0x1,w' ] 426: #disk = [ 'file:/var/xen/nbsd-disk,0x01,w' ] 427: #disk = [ 'file:/var/xen/nbsd-disk,0x301,w' ] 428: 429: #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 430: # Set the kernel command line for the new domain. 431: 432: # Set root device. This one does matter for NetBSD 433: root = "xbd0" 434: # extra parameters passed to the kernel 435: # this is where you can set boot flags like -s, -a, etc ... 436: #extra = "" 437: 438: #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 439: # Set according to whether you want the domain restarted when it exits. 440: # The default is False. 441: #autorestart = True 442: 443: # end of nbsd config file ==================================================== 444: 445: When a new domain is created, xen calls the 446: `/usr/pkg/etc/xen/vif-bridge` script for each virtual network interface 447: created in *domain0*. This can be used to automatically configure the 448: xvif?.? interfaces in *domain0*. In our example, these will be bridged 449: with the bridge0 device in *domain0*, but the bridge has to exist first. 450: To do this, create the file `/etc/ifconfig.bridge0` and make it look 451: like this: 452: 453: create 454: !brconfig $int add ex0 up 455: 456: (replace `ex0` with the name of your physical interface). Then bridge0 457: will be created on boot. See the MAN.BRIDGE.4 man page for details. 458: 459: So, here is a suitable `/usr/pkg/etc/xen/vif-bridge` for xvif?.? (a 460: working vif-bridge is also provided with xentools20) configuring: 461: 462: #!/bin/sh 463: #============================================================================ 464: # $NetBSD: howto.mdwn,v 1.18 2014/12/24 00:11:15 gdt Exp $ 465: # 466: # /usr/pkg/etc/xen/vif-bridge 467: # 468: # Script for configuring a vif in bridged mode with a dom0 interface. 469: # The xend(8) daemon calls a vif script when bringing a vif up or down. 470: # The script name to use is defined in /usr/pkg/etc/xen/xend-config.sxp 471: # in the ``vif-script'' field. 472: # 473: # Usage: vif-bridge up|down [var=value ...] 474: # 475: # Actions: 476: # up Adds the vif interface to the bridge. 477: # down Removes the vif interface from the bridge. 478: # 479: # Variables: 480: # domain name of the domain the interface is on (required). 481: # vifq vif interface name (required). 482: # mac vif MAC address (required). 483: # bridge bridge to add the vif to (required). 484: # 485: # Example invocation: 486: # 487: # vif-bridge up domain=VM1 vif=xvif1.0 mac="ee:14:01:d0:ec:af" bridge=bridge0 488: # 489: #============================================================================ 490: 491: # Exit if anything goes wrong 492: set -e 493: 494: echo "vif-bridge $*" 495: 496: # Operation name. 497: OP=$1; shift 498: 499: # Pull variables in args into environment 500: for arg ; do export "${arg}" ; done 501: 502: # Required parameters. Fail if not set. 503: domain=${domain:?} 504: vif=${vif:?} 505: mac=${mac:?} 506: bridge=${bridge:?} 507: 508: # Optional parameters. Set defaults. 509: ip=${ip:-''} # default to null (do nothing) 510: 511: # Are we going up or down? 512: case $OP in 513: up) brcmd='add' ;; 514: down) brcmd='delete' ;; 515: *) 516: echo 'Invalid command: ' $OP 517: echo 'Valid commands are: up, down' 518: exit 1 519: ;; 520: esac 521: 522: # Don't do anything if the bridge is "null". 523: if [ "${bridge}" = "null" ] ; then 524: exit 525: fi 526: 527: # Don't do anything if the bridge doesn't exist. 528: if ! ifconfig -l | grep "${bridge}" >/dev/null; then 529: exit 530: fi 531: 532: # Add/remove vif to/from bridge. 533: ifconfig x${vif} $OP 534: brconfig ${bridge} ${brcmd} x${vif} 535: 536: Now, running 537: 538: xm create -c /usr/pkg/etc/xen/nbsd 539: 540: should create a domain and load a NetBSD kernel in it. (Note: `-c` 541: causes xm to connect to the domain's console once created.) The kernel 542: will try to find its root file system on xbd0 (i.e., wd0e) which hasn't 543: been created yet. wd0e will be seen as a disk device in the new domain, 544: so it will be 'sub-partitioned'. We could attach a ccd to wd0e in 545: *domain0* and partition it, newfs and extract the NetBSD/i386 or amd64 546: tarballs there, but there's an easier way: load the 547: `netbsd-INSTALL_XEN3_DOMU` kernel provided in the NetBSD binary sets. 548: Like other install kernels, it contains a ramdisk with sysinst, so you 549: can install NetBSD using sysinst on your new domain. 550: 551: If you want to install NetBSD/Xen with a CDROM image, the following line 552: should be used in the `/usr/pkg/etc/xen/nbsd` file: 553: 554: disk = [ 'phy:/dev/wd0e,0x1,w', 'phy:/dev/cd0a,0x2,r' ] 555: 556: After booting the domain, the option to install via CDROM may be 557: selected. The CDROM device should be changed to `xbd1d`. 558: 559: Once done installing, `halt -p` the new domain (don't reboot or halt, it 560: would reload the INSTALL\_XEN3\_DOMU kernel even if you changed the 561: config file), switch the config file back to the XEN3\_DOMU kernel, and 562: start the new domain again. Now it should be able to use `root on xbd0a` 563: and you should have a second, functional NetBSD system on your xen 564: installation. 565: 566: When the new domain is booting you'll see some warnings about *wscons* 567: and the pseudo-terminals. These can be fixed by editing the files 568: `/etc/ttys` and `/etc/wscons.conf`. You must disable all terminals in 569: `/etc/ttys`, except *console*, like this: 570: 571: console "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" vt100 on secure 572: ttyE0 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" vt220 off secure 573: ttyE1 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" vt220 off secure 574: ttyE2 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" vt220 off secure 575: ttyE3 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" vt220 off secure 576: 577: Finally, all screens must be commented out from `/etc/wscons.conf`. 578: 579: It is also desirable to add 580: 581: powerd=YES 582: 583: in rc.conf. This way, the domain will be properly shut down if 584: `xm shutdown -R` or `xm shutdown -H` is used on the domain0. 585: 586: Your domain should be now ready to work, enjoy. 587: 588: Creating an unprivileged Linux domain (domU) 589: -------------------------------------------- 590: 591: Creating unprivileged Linux domains isn't much different from 592: unprivileged NetBSD domains, but there are some details to know. 593: 594: First, the second parameter passed to the disk declaration (the '0x1' in 595: the example below) 596: 597: disk = [ 'phy:/dev/wd0e,0x1,w' ] 598: 599: does matter to Linux. It wants a Linux device number here (e.g. 0x300 600: for hda). Linux builds device numbers as: (major \<\< 8 + minor). So, 601: hda1 which has major 3 and minor 1 on a Linux system will have device 602: number 0x301. Alternatively, devices names can be used (hda, hdb, ...) 603: as xentools has a table to map these names to devices numbers. To export 604: a partition to a Linux guest we can use: 605: 606: disk = [ 'phy:/dev/wd0e,0x300,w' ] 607: root = "/dev/hda1 ro" 608: 609: and it will appear as /dev/hda on the Linux system, and be used as root 610: partition. 611: 612: To install the Linux system on the partition to be exported to the guest 613: domain, the following method can be used: install sysutils/e2fsprogs 614: from pkgsrc. Use mke2fs to format the partition that will be the root 615: partition of your Linux domain, and mount it. Then copy the files from a 616: working Linux system, make adjustments in `/etc` (fstab, network 617: config). It should also be possible to extract binary packages such as 618: .rpm or .deb directly to the mounted partition using the appropriate 619: tool, possibly running under NetBSD's Linux emulation. Once the 620: filesystem has been populated, umount it. If desirable, the filesystem 621: can be converted to ext3 using tune2fs -j. It should now be possible to 622: boot the Linux guest domain, using one of the vmlinuz-\*-xenU kernels 623: available in the Xen binary distribution. 624: 625: To get the linux console right, you need to add: 626: 627: extra = "xencons=tty1" 628: 629: to your configuration since not all linux distributions auto-attach a 630: tty to the xen console. 631: 632: Creating an unprivileged Solaris domain (domU) 633: ---------------------------------------------- 634: 635: Download an Opensolaris [release](http://opensolaris.org/os/downloads/) 636: or [development snapshot](http://genunix.org/) DVD image. Attach the DVD 637: image to a MAN.VND.4 device. Copy the kernel and ramdisk filesystem 638: image to your dom0 filesystem. 639: 640: dom0# mkdir /root/solaris 641: dom0# vnconfig vnd0 osol-1002-124-x86.iso 642: dom0# mount /dev/vnd0a /mnt 643: 644: ## for a 64-bit guest 645: dom0# cp /mnt/boot/amd64/x86.microroot /root/solaris 646: dom0# cp /mnt/platform/i86xpv/kernel/amd64/unix /root/solaris 647: 648: ## for a 32-bit guest 649: dom0# cp /mnt/boot/x86.microroot /root/solaris 650: dom0# cp /mnt/platform/i86xpv/kernel/unix /root/solaris 651: 652: dom0# umount /mnt 653: 654: 655: Keep the MAN.VND.4 configured. For some reason the boot process stalls 656: unless the DVD image is attached to the guest as a "phy" device. Create 657: an initial configuration file with the following contents. Substitute 658: */dev/wd0k* with an empty partition at least 8 GB large. 659: 660: memory = 640 661: name = 'solaris' 662: disk = [ 'phy:/dev/wd0k,0,w' ] 663: disk += [ 'phy:/dev/vnd0d,6:cdrom,r' ] 664: vif = [ 'bridge=bridge0' ] 665: kernel = '/root/solaris/unix' 666: ramdisk = '/root/solaris/x86.microroot' 667: # for a 64-bit guest 668: extra = '/platform/i86xpv/kernel/amd64/unix - nowin -B install_media=cdrom' 669: # for a 32-bit guest 670: #extra = '/platform/i86xpv/kernel/unix - nowin -B install_media=cdrom' 671: 672: 673: Start the guest. 674: 675: dom0# xm create -c solaris.cfg 676: Started domain solaris 677: v3.3.2 chgset 'unavailable' 678: SunOS Release 5.11 Version snv_124 64-bit 679: Copyright 1983-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. 680: Use is subject to license terms. 681: Hostname: opensolaris 682: Remounting root read/write 683: Probing for device nodes ... 684: WARNING: emlxs: ddi_modopen drv/fct failed: err 2 685: Preparing live image for use 686: Done mounting Live image 687: 688: 689: Make sure the network is configured. Note that it can take a minute for 690: the xnf0 interface to appear. 691: 692: opensolaris console login: jack 693: Password: jack 694: Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.11 snv_124 November 2008 695: jack@opensolaris:~$ pfexec sh 696: sh-3.2# ifconfig -a 697: sh-3.2# exit 698: 699: 700: Set a password for VNC and start the VNC server which provides the X11 701: display where the installation program runs. 702: 703: jack@opensolaris:~$ vncpasswd 704: Password: solaris 705: Verify: solaris 706: jack@opensolaris:~$ cp .Xclients .vnc/xstartup 707: jack@opensolaris:~$ vncserver :1 708: 709: 710: From a remote machine connect to the VNC server. Use `ifconfig xnf0` on 711: the guest to find the correct IP address to use. 712: 713: remote$ vncviewer 172.18.2.99:1 714: 715: 716: It is also possible to launch the installation on a remote X11 display. 717: 718: jack@opensolaris:~$ export DISPLAY=172.18.1.1:0 719: jack@opensolaris:~$ pfexec gui-install 720: 721: 722: After the GUI installation is complete you will be asked to reboot. 723: Before that you need to determine the ZFS ID for the new boot filesystem 724: and update the configuration file accordingly. Return to the guest 725: console. 726: 727: jack@opensolaris:~$ pfexec zdb -vvv rpool | grep bootfs 728: bootfs = 43 729: ^C 730: jack@opensolaris:~$ 731: 732: 733: The final configuration file should look like this. Note in particular 734: the last line. 735: 736: memory = 640 737: name = 'solaris' 738: disk = [ 'phy:/dev/wd0k,0,w' ] 739: vif = [ 'bridge=bridge0' ] 740: kernel = '/root/solaris/unix' 741: ramdisk = '/root/solaris/x86.microroot' 742: extra = '/platform/i86xpv/kernel/amd64/unix -B zfs-bootfs=rpool/43,bootpath="/xpvd/xdf@0:a"' 743: 744: 745: Restart the guest to verify it works correctly. 746: 747: dom0# xm destroy solaris 748: dom0# xm create -c solaris.cfg 749: Using config file "./solaris.cfg". 750: v3.3.2 chgset 'unavailable' 751: Started domain solaris 752: SunOS Release 5.11 Version snv_124 64-bit 753: Copyright 1983-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. 754: Use is subject to license terms. 755: WARNING: emlxs: ddi_modopen drv/fct failed: err 2 756: Hostname: osol 757: Configuring devices. 758: Loading smf(5) service descriptions: 160/160 759: svccfg import warnings. See /var/svc/log/system-manifest-import:default.log . 760: Reading ZFS config: done. 761: Mounting ZFS filesystems: (6/6) 762: Creating new rsa public/private host key pair 763: Creating new dsa public/private host key pair 764: 765: osol console login: 766: 767: 768: Using PCI devices in guest domains 769: ---------------------------------- 770: 771: The domain0 can give other domains access to selected PCI devices. This 772: can allow, for example, a non-privileged domain to have access to a 773: physical network interface or disk controller. However, keep in mind 774: that giving a domain access to a PCI device most likely will give the 775: domain read/write access to the whole physical memory, as PCs don't have 776: an IOMMU to restrict memory access to DMA-capable device. Also, it's not 777: possible to export ISA devices to non-domain0 domains (which means that 778: the primary VGA adapter can't be exported. A guest domain trying to 779: access the VGA registers will panic). 780: 781: This functionality is only available in NetBSD-5.1 (and later) domain0 782: and domU. If the domain0 is NetBSD, it has to be running Xen 3.1, as 783: support has not been ported to later versions at this time. 784: 785: For a PCI device to be exported to a domU, is has to be attached to the 786: `pciback` driver in domain0. Devices passed to the domain0 via the 787: pciback.hide boot parameter will attach to `pciback` instead of the 788: usual driver. The list of devices is specified as `(bus:dev.func)`, 789: where bus and dev are 2-digit hexadecimal numbers, and func a 790: single-digit number: 791: 792: pciback.hide=(00:0a.0)(00:06.0) 793: 794: pciback devices should show up in the domain0's boot messages, and the 795: devices should be listed in the `/kern/xen/pci` directory. 796: 797: PCI devices to be exported to a domU are listed in the `pci` array of 798: the domU's config file, with the format `'0000:bus:dev.func'` 799: 800: pci = [ '0000:00:06.0', '0000:00:0a.0' ] 801: 802: In the domU an `xpci` device will show up, to which one or more pci 803: busses will attach. Then the PCI drivers will attach to PCI busses as 804: usual. Note that the default NetBSD DOMU kernels do not have `xpci` or 805: any PCI drivers built in by default; you have to build your own kernel 806: to use PCI devices in a domU. Here's a kernel config example: 807: 808: include "arch/i386/conf/XEN3_DOMU" 809: #include "arch/i386/conf/XENU" # in NetBSD 3.0 810: 811: # Add support for PCI busses to the XEN3_DOMU kernel 812: xpci* at xenbus ? 813: pci* at xpci ? 814: 815: # Now add PCI and related devices to be used by this domain 816: # USB Controller and Devices 817: 818: # PCI USB controllers 819: uhci* at pci? dev ? function ? # Universal Host Controller (Intel) 820: 821: # USB bus support 822: usb* at uhci? 823: 824: # USB Hubs 825: uhub* at usb? 826: uhub* at uhub? port ? configuration ? interface ? 827: 828: # USB Mass Storage 829: umass* at uhub? port ? configuration ? interface ? 830: wd* at umass? 831: # SCSI controllers 832: ahc* at pci? dev ? function ? # Adaptec [23]94x, aic78x0 SCSI 833: 834: # SCSI bus support (for both ahc and umass) 835: scsibus* at scsi? 836: 837: # SCSI devices 838: sd* at scsibus? target ? lun ? # SCSI disk drives 839: cd* at scsibus? target ? lun ? # SCSI CD-ROM drives 840: 841: Links and further information 842: ============================= 843: 844: - The [HowTo on Installing into RAID-1](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/port-xen/2006/03/01/0010.html) 845: explains how to set up booting a dom0 with Xen using grub 846: with NetBSD's RAIDframe. (This is obsolete with the use of 847: NetBSD's native boot.) 848: - An example of how to use NetBSD's native bootloader to load 849: NetBSD/Xen instead of Grub can be found in the i386/amd64 boot(8) 850: and boot.cfg(5) manpages.