Xen 4.3 Man Pages

= Xen Configuration =
Page 	Description
Xen CLI	Command line options for Xen to be used in /boot/grub/grub.conf
EFI 	Configuring Xen to work with EFI.
= Xen Man Pages =
Man page 	Description 	Console
xl(1) 	Xen management tool, based on LibXenlight 	XL
xm(1) 	Xen management user interface (deprecated, also see Xen 4.1 Upgrade Notes) 	XM
xend-config.sxp(5)	Xen daemon configuration file (deprecated, also see Xen 4.1 Upgrade Notes) 	XM
xl.cfg(5) 	XL Domain Configuration File Syntax: to create a VM (a domain in Xen terminology, sometimes called a guest) with xl requires the provision of a domain config file.	XL
xl.conf(5) 	XL Global/Host Configuration: allows configuration of hostwide xl toolstack options 	XL
xlcpupool.cfg(5) 	XL Cpupool Configuration File Syntax: to create a Cpupool with xl requires the provision of a cpupool config file. 	XL
xmdomain.cfg(5) 	XM domain config file format (deprecated, also see Xen 4.1 Upgrade Notes) 	XM
xentop(1) 	xentop displays information about the Xen system and domains, in a continually-updating manner. 	XENTOP
xenpm(1) 	Xenpm is a userspace tool that can list the power information of available processors and control the power policy according to users' preference. 	XENPM
= Supporting Documents for XL & XM =
Document 	Description
xl.cfg(5), disk configuration 	This document specifies the xl config file format disk configuration option.
xl.cfg(5), network configuration 	This document specifies the xl config file format vif configuration option.
xl.cfg(5), tsc_mode configuration 	In Xen 4 a new config option called tsc_mode may be specified for each domain. This document is targeted for Xen users and administrators that may need to select a non-default tsc_mode.
xm.cfg(5), sEDF scheduler 	The sEDF scheduler provides weighted CPU sharing in an intuitive way and uses realtime-algorithms to ensure time guarantees.
xl-numa.cfg(5), Guest Automatic NUMA placement in LIBXL and XL	This document describes the automatic placement options for NUMA hardware in XL.
= Advanced Topics =
Document(s) 	Category 	Description 	Also See
Environment Variables for different Linux distros	Distros 	With directory layout differences between Red Hat, Debian, Suse and other distros one needs to set the variables for CONFIG_LEAF_DIR, SUBSYS_DIR and INITD_DIR. 	Distros
Distro directory layouts 	Distros 	Overview of the differences in directory layout between RHEL, Debian and Suse. 	Distros
How to do PCI Passthrough with VT-d 	PCI Passthrough 	 	Xen PCI Passthrough Overview, VT-d HowTo
Virtual TPM support 	Security 	This document gives a short introduction to the virtual TPM support in XEN and goes as far as connecting a user domain to a virtual TPM instance and doing a short test to verify success. It is assumed that the user is fairly familiar with compiling and installing XEN and Linux on a machine.	Virtual Trusted Platform Module (research note)
Qemu Upstream: How to use it 	QEMU 	Pointer to a wiki page documenting how to build XXen with the QEMU unstable tree. 	
sEDF scheduler how to 	Scheduler / Performance	Using the SsEDF scheduler for weighted CPU sharing. 	
XL placement 	Performance 	NUMA Node placement. 	
VT-d HOWTO 	PCI Passthrough 	How to use Intel's VT-d extensions. 	
XSM/FLASK Configuration 	Security 	Configuring Xen to use the XSM/FLASK mandatory access control framework 	XSM-FLASK
More documentation: 	 	See Generated documents 	
= Developer Topics =
Document(s) 	Category 	Description 	Also See
Kexec, and kdump for Xen 	Developers	Guide to using kexec to switch to a new kernel; and kdump for catching a dump image, with Xen. 	
Xen Core Dump Format 	Developers	Format of the output of the x{m,l} core-dump command 	
Xen Guest Disk (VBD) interface 	Developers	The interface exposed to DomUs for communicating with block devices. 	
Xenstore Protocol Definition 	Developers	Definition of standard behaviour, when using Xenstore. 	
A rough introduction to using grant tables	Developers	Explanation of the data structures, and hypercalls required to share memory between domains. 	
Xen Error Handling 	Developers	Explanation of the various types of error (BUG, ASSERT etc) that the hypervisor, and guest can call. 	
Xen HVM emulated device unplug protocol 	Developers	Definition of the protocol used to disconnect emulated deivces, get log messages from drivers, and prevent Dom0 from loading specific drivers.	
Xen paging 	Developers	Allow the sum of memory allocated to guests > physical memory available, by paging out. 	
Xen Crash Debugger 	Developers	Using gdb to analyse why Xen has crashed. 	
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