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Structure of the Xen source code hi all, I installed Xen on my Gentoo machine successfully from source. Now i am going through the code. instead of banging aimlessly for a week or so i thought i should ask the mailing list the following small doubts. I noticed that following directories are there in my xen-3.0.3_0-src directories. 1. linux-2.6.-xen-sparse 2. pristine-linux-2.6.16.29 3.

about VIRQ & PIRQ what is VIRQ  ?How VIRQ is different from PIRQ ?How VIRQ & PIRQ are related each other ? DISCLAIMER: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The contents of this e-mail and any attachment(s) are confidential and intended for the named recipient(s) only. It shall not attach any

Hi, I have a question about memory page tables in Xen. As far as I understood, every modification to page table will go through Xen(hypervisor). Is it so that all page tables are actually allocated in Xen(hypervisor) instead of guest OS(domain)? Also, is it the case that Xen(hypervisor) needs to maintain a page table for each process running in every domain? Thanks Haifeng

I want to know any difference between writing, reading and shadow page table (for example performance). I am thankful for any help or resource for that. -- Best Regards Mohamad Taghi Mir Mohamad Rezaie Iran University of Science and Technology Department of Computer Science & Engineering System Software Group _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list

I''m not seeing the problem that Fan Zhao is reporting, instead I get this one. Not sure if ti''s the same one or a different problem... This happens with my simple-guest [i.e. not using hvmloader, as I described before]. This worked fine yesterday. (XEN) event_channel.c:178:d0 EVTCHNOP failure: domain 0, error -22, line 178 (XEN) bad shared page: 0 (XEN) domain_crash_sync called

Hello, I am a newbie at xen - I am trying to trace the complete execution of a trap. Specifically, I am trying to find out where the control transfer happens between a domU to dom0 when a trap occurs, and where the control switches back to domU after the trap is handled. I was wondering if there is some documentation on this or someone may be able to help me out. Thanks, Girish

Dear All: I am pretty new to xen-devel, please correct me in the following. Assume we have the following terms GPT: guest page table SPT: shadow page table (Question a) When guest OS is running, is it always using SPT for address translation? If it is the case, how does guest OS refer and modify its own GPT content? It seems that there is a page table entry in SPT for the GPT page. (Question

Hello all, I know that the question: Is it possible to run quemu inside Xen domU or run Xen domain 0 on quemu have discussed earlier in this mail list. As far as I remember this is possible except such a configuration where kquemu acceleration is in use. But what about HVM-capable systems? Please tell me are there the same restrictions for the hvm-capable systems? Thank you! -- WBR,

I can boot a 64-bit HVM image on my SVM-system, and it goes quite a long way before it crashes (due to not finding the hard-disk image and thus no root FS - which I think may well be the configuration file). But if I set debug=y in the Rules.mk, I don''t get very far at all - it crashes well before it gets to any user-mode (Ring3) - in fact, I think it''s crashing pretty much as

Hi, I looked at the sources and figured out all about the P2M, M2P tables and mappings, Now I''m trying to figure out how dom0 virtual memory is implemented, and I have some questions. The platform I''m working on is x86 with Intel VT enabled. 1. Is dom0 virtual memory managed differently than the other domains? what about hvms? and domUs? 2. What tables are used to manage the

We (Michael Fetterman, George Dunlap and I) have been working over the last while on a full replacement for Xen''s shadow pagetable support. This mail contains some design notes, below; a patch against xen-unstable, giving a snapshot of the current state of the new shadow code, is at http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~tjd21/shadow2.patch Comments on both are welcome, although the code is not

[PATCH 4/8] HVM save restore: vcpu context support Signed-off-by: Zhai Edwin <edwin.zhai@intel.com> save/restore HVM vcpu context such as vmcs diff -r ee20d1905bde xen/arch/x86/domain.c --- a/xen/arch/x86/domain.c Thu Jan 11 16:40:55 2007 +0800 +++ b/xen/arch/x86/domain.c Thu Jan 11 16:46:59 2007 +0800 @@ -573,6 +573,7 @@ int arch_set_info_guest( else {

Hi All, The interface manual says - grant tables provide a generic mechanism sharing between domains. Subsequent lines suggest mechanism sharing between only unpriviliged domains. Can grant tables be used for this capability based shared memory communication between dom0 and domUs? Thanks ~psr -- pradeep singh rautela "proud to be a TUXedo, BSDemons you are a little late" - me

problem in starting xend I tried to install xen, but got some errors when starting xend. as I logged in and tried to start xend (/etc/init.d/xend start). I just got six-seven dot (.) printed out, then it stops. I looked more closely and found that xend could not start. then I looked at /var/log/xend-debug.log. here is the last few lines: ^^^    Exception starting Xend: no element found:

In a recent conversation one of my coworkers raised a concern about memory limitations when running 32-bit guests on top of the 64-bit hypervisor. At this point the discussion is academic; I don''t know when/if we''ll ever be able to get system resources to test it, to see if the concerns that he expressed are real. So I decided to post this in hope of getting comments from the

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Hello, What is the better solution now to run linux domUs under Xen3? Using a VT hardware, sould I install a xen-patched kernel as I would where no VT extension, or use an unmodified linux guest system? Is there any performance difference between a Pentium D 3 Ghz with vt (9xx) and without it (8xx)? Regards, Slapic _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list

Mats, Thanks for your trial; following your mail I tried it with hda; it is the same, it does not work - "fdisk -l" does not show hda. Regards, Ian On 4/2/07, Petersson, Mats <Mats.Petersson@amd.com> wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com > > [mailto:xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com] On Behalf Of Ian Brown

Hi, guys Recently I have been doing some research & I''ve got in trouble. I have altered the kernel of domU and put the code section and data section of selinux security server which locate ~/security/selinux/ss into two seperate sections in the final vmlinux image(see below) objdump -h vmlinux vmlinux: file format elf32-i386 Sections: Idx Name Size VMA

I have been scouring this list''s archives and have consumed any and all how-to guides I could find but am still unsure. All discussion in this list on this issue is around hvm/vti DomU''s. Has anyone been able to attach a vnc client to a vanilla (non-hvm) DomU using the VNC console setting? On an FC5 (2.6.16-1.2080_FC5xen0) kernel deployed on vanilla (non-hvm) hardware,