> > I''ve some questions related to xen. Can anybody help me
regarding the
> > following questions.
Hi there,
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> > 1. Is dom0 a logical system(like any other vm''s that are
configured on
> > it) ? If yes, then all xm commands should be applicable to it (ex :
> > vcpu-set) .
Basically it''s like the other domains on the system but it has special
status
to do privileged operations because the other domains rely on it.
Standard operations ought to be applicable to it but it''s worth being a
little
careful here: some operations don''t make sense to do on dom0. These
*ought*
to be filtered out by Xen or the tools, to prevent you shooting yourself in
the foot but do exercise a bit of caution here since there is a little scope
for hanging the host:
There have been occasional instances of checks on operations not being
performed in the past, although I''m not personally aware of any
existing now.
However, there are probably still some things you can do to cause
problems ;-) For instance, if you set the scheduling parameters badly I
suspect it''s possible to starve dom0 of CPU, which will make it
difficult to
change the scheduling parameters back because the domain won''t be
responsive.
Basically, do just give a little thought about whether a given setting is a
good idea in theory before actually applying it to dom0 ;-)
> > 2. /proc on dom0 reflects the physical or logical utilization.
It refers to dom0''s internal operation; dom0 processes, etc.
It''s not aware
of the other domains at all...
We do add some Xen-related files to /proc, so it''s not identical to
/proc on a
native Linux install.
> > 3. Is there any entitelment concept in xen for cpu and memory? What is
> > cpu weight used for and how is set.
I think credit scheduler has some support for ensuring Quality of Service to
domains but I''m not so familiar with it, so I''ll leave the
description of
that to people who have more recent familiarity with it.
Memory provides hard guarantees because Xen does not perform paging of virtual
machines: if you set a domain to have x MB of RAM, then it *really* has x MB
of real RAM. You can use xm mem-max and mem-set with a paravirt domain (or
an HVM domain with appropriate paravirt drivers installed) to resize its
memory footprint subsequently. Shrinking is easy, but resizing a domain to
be bigger than it''s initial footprint requires a little more
configuration.
> > 4. virt-manager shows physical or logical utilization (cpu, memory)
It shows the real host RAM consumption - the hard allocation that your domain
currently has. I assume the CPU graphs show *host* CPU utilisation by the
domain, but I''m not familiar with their codebase so I may be wrong.
> > 5. How do i get the IP address of each of the guests from dom0 ?
That''s more tricky. There''s not a way to do this in
general...
Possible solutions:
* pass IP addr into domU on kernel command line, so you know what it is
* use DHCP to configure guest, then query addresses from the DHCP database
* run some software in the domU that you can somehow query or be notified by
to get IP details
* sniff packets the guests are emitting
> > 6. What are the interfaces in domU to tell me that its a guest (or
> > dom0) and also the type of virtualization ( eg. XEN/ VMWARE etc )
PV guests:
For XenSource Linux, the files in /proc/xen will help tell you you''re
running
on Xen and whether you''re dom0. There''s also a program called
xen-detect
which prints information to the console about your Xen version, etc.
For kernel.org Linux, I''m not sure how you do this although
there''s probably
some Xen-related message in dmesg.
HVM guests:
If there''s a Xen Platform Device in lspci''s output (or the
device manager
under Windows) then you''re running on Xen HVM. If that wasn''t
being provided
to the HVM guest for some reason, you''d need to detect Xen indirectly
by
observing the virtual hardware available and the behaviour of the emulated
system.
I don''t know how you detect if you''re running on VMware
(paravirt or full
virt) because I''m not very familiar with their products.
Cheers,
Mark
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