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Brendan Johnson graduated from Clarkson University in 2002 with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and a minor in Mathematics. Brendan continued his education at Clarkson University and obtained a Master's of Science in Computer Science with a thesis in quantum computing. Brendan is currently a senior software architect at Mobile Armor, a world leading "Data At Rest" encryption software company.
Chapter 1. Xen—Background and Virtualization Basics Xen is a virtual machine monitor (hypervisor) that allows you to use one physical computer to run many virtual computers—for example, running a production Web server and a test server on the same physical machine or running Linux and Windows simultaneously. Although not the only virtualization system available, Xen has a combination of features that make it uniquely well suited for many important applications. Xen runs on commodity hardware platforms and is open source. Xen is fast, scalable, and provides server-class features such as live migration. This chapter discusses common uses and types of virtualization, describes the history of virtualization and origins of Xen, provides a brief overview of the Xen architecture, and compares Xen with other virtualization systems. Common Uses and Benefits of Virtualization Virtual machine monitors provide a convenient way to use the same physical computer hardware for many different tasks. Operating systems have been doing this for years simply by enabling users to run many different applications at once, such as Web browsers, database servers, and games. However, without virtualization, the act of choosing an operating system and system configuration to run on your physical computer has the unfortunate side effect of closing off many other options. For example, if you run Linux to develop and test programs in that environment, you may not be able to run programs written exclusively for Windows. Also, if you run the newest and fully patched version of Windows, reproducing problems experienced by customers on earlier versions may be difficult. Additionally, if your Web server and database server require different versions of a system library, they may not be able to run on the same system. Without virtualization in each of these examples, you would need to maintain many physical machines, each with a special software configuration, even if the computing resources in one machine are sufficient to run all of your applications at once. Virtual machine monitors (hypervisors) are becoming increasingly important in modern computing because they allow many different operating systems and software configurations to exist on the same physical machine. The hypervisor controls the underlying hardware, allowing it to be used by many guest systems at once, and gives each guest system the illusion that it is running on its own private hardware. The hypervisor abstracts the physical resources of the host computer into discrete virtual counterparts that can be allocated for use by individual guests. Virtual guests treat their virtual hardware as if it were real, and the hypervisor ensures that this illusion is seamless. Additionally, hypervisors must ensure some level of isolation between guests. In a way, hypervisors act as both magician and traffic cop. Figure 1.1 illustrates the relationship between the physical hardware, the hypervisor, and the guest virtual machines. Figure 1.1. The hypervisor sits between the guest domains and the physical hardware. [View full size image]
Page 1 and 2: Running Xen: A Hands-On Guide to th
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Page 5 and 6: Copyright Many of the designations
Page 7 and 8: Dedication This book is dedicated t
Page 9 and 10: Preface We began using Xen in the f
Page 11 and 12: Acknowledgments We are indebted to
Page 13: About the Authors Jeanna Matthews i
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Page 19 and 20: Virtual machine monitors also provi
Page 21 and 22: Types of Virtualization Many techni
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Page 25 and 26: A fourth technique is operating sys
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Page 29 and 30: Virtualization Heritage Virtualizat
Page 31 and 32: During late 2004, Xen 2.0 came on t
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Page 37 and 38: Summary In this chapter we introduc
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The hypervisor gives each guest dom
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With hardware support for virtualiz
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Type Privilege Level Software Purpo
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oot (cd) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.1
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Option Category Description If some
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title Debian-based Dom0 (from testi
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xend xend , the Xen Daemon, is a sp
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xend-unix-server Specifies whether
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XenStore Another important part of
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Entry domId Description Domain iden
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[user@dom0]#xenstore-list /local/do
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References and Further Reading "Cre
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Intel VT Intel introduced a new set
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Intel VT Intel introduced a new set
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obtain /dev/ethX devices. If your h
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Microsoft recommends 128 megabytes
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Commercially Supported Options The
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Methods of Installing Domain0 Hosts
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Selecting Virtualization from the l
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(9/9): virt-manager-0.2.5 100% |===
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The following extra packages will b
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Code View: [root@ubuntu]# tar xzpf
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If you encounter any problem areas
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configuration tools, simply make su
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XenExpress In this section, we use
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Non-Linux Domain0 Installations Cur
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Building from Source Although we re
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Summary This chapter began by discu
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Chapter 5. Using Prebuilt Guest Ima
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entire physical disk such as hda or
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oot = '/dev/nfs' nfs_server = '2.3.
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Xen-compatible kernel (for paravirt
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Xen DomU guest images can also be i
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Working with Prebuilt Guest Images
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disk images both have advantages an
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After the image boots you should se
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etc/xen directory and rename it to
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Listing 5.22. The Modified Guest Co
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Note There has been some discussion
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For this example, we work with an e
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Finally, when all the operations ar
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partition, as an argument. We pass
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Listing 5.38. Using rm to Delete th
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Converting Images from Other Virtua
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References and Further Reading "Ama
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Chapter 6. Managing Unprivileged Do
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Listing 6.6. Using xm help [root@do
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The xm list Subcommand The first xm
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The xm create Subcommand xm create
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[root@dom0]# xm list Name ID Mem(Mi
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[root@dom0]# xm create generic-gues
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to use the console option (-c) on t
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[root@dom0]# xm destroy 1 [root@dom
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as shown in Listing 6.63. Listing 6
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characteristics. If we had specifie
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Interacting with a Guest Graphicall
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ForwardX11 yes ForwardX11Trusted ye
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Listing 6.76. Accessing a Desktop R
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To enable VNC graphics export on a
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Remote Desktop provides the capabil
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References and Further Reading Offi
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Note The location of the hvmloader
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Listing 7.7 contains a sample guest
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# start in full screen (default=0 n
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Figure 7.4. Windows XP is running a
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Gentoo Linux. quickpkg is the packa
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Figure 7.7. The Create a Virtual Ma
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For all installation types, be sure
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To create a new guest, click the Ne
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You can choose from a Normal (physi
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Note The details of a Fedora instal
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[root@dom0]# mkfs.ext3 -F /xen/imag
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For Gentoo, we cover two options. T
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Clicking on the Install XenVM butto
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You now can click on the Graphical
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Note The default window manager ins
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Chapter 7. Populating Guest Images
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the physical CD-ROM. Next, we selec
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vcpus=1 # HVM guest PAE support (de
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What would you like to use for the
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HVM population is in many ways the
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Figure 7.6. Clicking the Add button
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The Create a Virtual Machine window
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After clicking Connect, assuming th
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Figure 7.12. The Naming Your Virtua
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The Fedora and CentOS installation
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At this point, the operating system
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Listing 7.10. The xm create Command
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for tools, such as rpmstrap, rinse,
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[output omitted] [root@dom0]# mkdir
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### fedora-example: save yum cache
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We use the Debian Sarge Guest Templ
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At the end of the boot process, a o
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Compile flags and options can be co
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[user@dom0]$ ssh-keygen -t rsa Gene
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Converting Existing Installations W
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[root@dom0]# mkdir /mnt/guest_parti
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Chapter 8. Storing Guest Images Now
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[root@dom0]# vgcreate xen_vg /dev/s
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tricky to set up. Refer to http://f
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[root@dom0]# lvreduce -f -L 4G /dev
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Chapter 8. Storing Guest Images Now
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[root@dom0]# vgcreate xen_vg /dev/s
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[root@dom0]# lvreduce -f -L 4G /dev
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Network Image Storage Options Sever
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Summary Xen uses a split driver mod
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Designing a Virtual Network Topolog
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the connections between all the gue
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domain's configuration file determi
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When the physical network interface
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Code View: [user@DomU]# ping www.go
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The trace tells us that it does sen
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server in the guest domain 10.0.0.2
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To set up a dummy0 interface in the
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Handling Multiple Network Interface
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Subcommand Options Description -L -
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The steps to run vnet are to load t
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In Listing 11.13, Snort analyzed 54
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Figure 11.4. Entering runtime exclu
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Code View: [root@dom0]# cp /etc/xen
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Started domain CompetitorA [1]+ Don
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ERROR messages are printed when som
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Chapter 12. Managing Guest Resource
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total_memory — The total amount o
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xentop displays a dynamic, changing
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amount of VCPUs a guest is granted.
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to use or you are not worried about
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Summary You should now be familiar
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Types of Guest Relocation The abili
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Live migration is considerably more
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# Hosts that are allowed to send gu
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vif = [ 'mac=00:16:3e:55:9d:b0, bri
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models, protocols, documents, usage
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virtual storage and network connect
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Enomalism Enomalism is another inte
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Like IBM Virtualization Manager, vi
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XenMan The final management tool we
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XenMan is a well-behaved administra
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Summary Choosing enterprise managem
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Appendix A. Resources Xen is still
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XenWiki The XenWiki, at http://wiki
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Xen Mailing Lists and Bug Reporting
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Academic Papers and Conferences Ano
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Subcommand xm labels [policy] [type
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Appendix E. Xen Performance Evaluat
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Figure E.5. The same results on the
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In Figure E.8, we add measurements
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The only significant difference in
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Figure E.3 reports our results for
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Figure E.6. The performance results
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Performance Isolation in Xen Perfor
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Performance of Xen Virtual Network
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do not have distinguishing differen
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Index [A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F] [G] [
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initializing partitions for LVMs (l
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