The Book of Xen

Creating an HVM Domain

When you've got the hypervisor and domain 0 running on an HVM-capable machine, creating an HVM domain is much like creating any Xen guest.

Here's a sample HVM config file. (It's got a snippet of Python at the beginning to set the appropriate library directory, borrowed from the sample configs distributed with Xen.)

import os, re
arch = os.uname()[4]
if re.search('64', arch):
arch_libdir = 'lib64'
else:
arch_libdir = 'lib'

device_model = '/usr/' + arch_libdir + '/xen/bin/qemu-dm' kernel = "/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader" builder='hvm' memory = 384 shadow_memory = 16 name = "florizel" vcpus = 1 vif = [ 'type=ioemu, bridge=xenbr0' ] disk = [ 'file:/opt/florizel.img,hda,w', 'file:/root/slackware-12.0-install-dvd.iso,hdc:cdrom,r' ...