Hello All: I am not sure if the question I am asking makes sense but I am trying to set up a testbed for provisioning customized vms and the only machines that I have root access to are vms. What I am wondering... is there any way to have a domU running as a dom0 so that any vm creating and destroy can be done inside of a vm. I tried to naively install xen and xen-libs with yum and my vm came back up after a reboot, but I can''t seem to get xend running on it. I have tried to search for examples of this but have come up empty. Is this even possible? Cheers, David _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Alexander Schreiber
2010-Oct-09 14:35 UTC
Re: [Xen-users] running a hypervisor inside a domU guest?
On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 04:58:45PM -0700, David Grundy wrote:> Hello All: > > I am not sure if the question I am asking makes sense but I am trying to set > up a testbed for provisioning customized vms and the only machines that I > have root access to are vms. What I am wondering... is there any way to > have a domU running as a dom0 so that any vm creating and destroy can be > done inside of a vm. I tried to naively install xen and xen-libs with yum > and my vm came back up after a reboot, but I can''t seem to get xend running > on it. I have tried to search for examples of this but have come up empty. > Is this even possible?What can be done is running Xen PVM inside Xen HVM. For that, you set up a domain with Xen HVM, running a suitable Linux distro. Then, inside that HVM domain, you can install Xen and create PVM domains. I tested that for fun & giggles with IIRC Xen 3.1 and it does work. Be warned, however, that the PVM domains will probably be very slow. Kind regards, Alex. -- "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." -- Thomas A. Edison _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users