Category: xen
First Step to Become a Xen Guru
As you mostly know Xen is open source industry standard virtualization. From http://xen.org: The Xen® hypervisor, the powerful open source industry standard for virtualization, offers a powerful, efficient, and secure feature set for virtualization of x86, x86_64, IA64, ARM, and other CPU architectures. It supports a wide range of guest operating systems including Windows®, Linux®,…
Is there a way to somehow mount a (shutdown) Xen disk image and browse files?
Yes .. Many .. One is# losetup /dev/loop0 System.img# kpartx -a /dev/loop0 # ls -l /dev/mapper/loop0* brw-rw—- 1 root disk 253, 0 Jul 14 18:53 /dev/mapper/loop0p1brw-rw—- 1 root disk 253, 1 Jul 14 18:53 /dev/mapper/loop0p2# mount /dev/mapper/loop0p2 /mnt Another is # fdisk -l -u System.img… Device Boot Start End Blocks Id SystemSystem.img1 * 63 208844…
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Xen: How to define the boot order for HVM in vm.cfg
This is done by the boot paramer in vm.cfg. The switches are: * floppy (a) * hard disk (c) * Network (n) * CD-ROM (d) If you use boot = ‘n’ it will be stuck at PXE boot even if there is no dhcp lease and guest will not attempt boot from the Virtual Disk….
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