Xen/Running Xen

After you have created DomUs, reboot your PC. Select your Xen option in grub. You should see the Xen hypervisor booting

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http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/netos/xen University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory

Xen version 3.0-devel (portage@edesix.com) (gcc version 3.3.6 (Gentoo 3.3.6, ssp-3.3.6-1.0, pie-8.7.8)) Tue Sep 6 17:30:34 BST 2005 Latest ChangeSet:

(XEN) Physical RAM map: (XEN) 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable) (XEN) 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) (XEN) 0000000000100000 - 000000003fe8cc00 (usable) (XEN) 000000003fe8cc00 - 000000003fe8ec00 (ACPI NVS) (XEN) 000000003fe8ec00 - 000000003fe90c00 (ACPI data) (XEN) 000000003fe90c00 - 0000000040000000 (reserved) (XEN) 00000000f0000000 - 00000000f4000000 (reserved) (XEN) 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fed00400 (reserved) (XEN) 00000000fed20000 - 00000000feda0000 (reserved) (XEN) 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fef00000 (reserved) (XEN) 00000000ffb00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) ......

Once the Hypervisor has loaded, it will boot your kernel. You should see something like: (XEN) Scrubbing Free RAM: ...........done. (XEN) *** Serial input -> DOM0 (type 'CTRL-a' three times to switch input to Xen). Linux version 2.6.12.5-xen (root@funky.edesix.com) (gcc version 3.3.6 (Gentoo 3.3.6, ssp-3.3.6-1.0, pie-8.7.8)) #2 Tue Sep 6 18:30:28 BST 2005 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: Xen: 0000000000000000 - 0000000006000000 (usable) 96MB LOWMEM available. On node 0 totalpages: 2

Followed by the usual kernel boot messages. Log in as normal. Congratulations, you now have a domain 0 Xen kernel up and running!

You need to activate the Xen control daemon to start the domUs.