Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Oct 2012 11:55:13 +0100 | From | Stefano Stabellini <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 06/19] x86, mm: setup page table in top-down |
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On Tue, 23 Oct 2012, Yinghai Lu wrote: > On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 5:22 AM, Stefano Stabellini > <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com> wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Oct 2012, Yinghai Lu wrote: > >> Can you test domU 32bit too? > >> I did not test that, and looks like Jacob only test 64 bit domU too. > > > > Sure. It works fine. > > great. > > Do you know any simple way to test xen domU after pxe booting xen/dom0 via pxe? > > >From kvm, it is simple with pxe: > 1. build kernel and iso at the same time., initrd is converted from > opensuse rescue initramfs. > 2. copy kernel and iso into boot server > 3. network boot the kernel > 4. mount nfs dir so could access iso, and qemu-kvm. > 5. qemu-kvm to load the iso.
After building and installing the Xen tools in Dom0 (basically everything that comes out a xen-unstable build), you can use "xl" to create VMs:
1) build and install xen and tools in dom0 (make; make install) If you are running dom0 out of his initramfs you might have to add them to it. But I guess that you can also make them available to your dom0 via nfs share.
2) copy your domU kernel and initrd to dom0
3) Write a simple config file in dom0 with the path to the kernel and initrd
name = "linux" kernel = "/path/to/vmlinuz" ramdisk = "/path/to/initrd" memory = 1024 vcpus = 4 vif = [ 'bridge=xenbr0' ] disk = [ '/path/to/debian_squeeze_amd64_standard.raw,raw,xvda,w' ] extra = 'textmode=1 xencons=xvc0' root = "/dev/xvda1"
4) create the VM xl create -c /path/to/config_file
As an alternative you can get an account on Amazon EC2 for few cents per hour and test your kernel over there ;)
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