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1 Recipe for getting/building/running Xen/ia64 with pv_ops
2 --------------------------------------------------------
3
4This recipe describes how to get xen-ia64 source and build it,
5and run domU with pv_ops.
6
7============
8Requirements
9============
10
11 - python
12 - mercurial
13 it (aka "hg") is an open-source source code
14 management software. See the below.
15 http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/
16 - git
17 - bridge-utils
18
19=================================
20Getting and Building Xen and Dom0
21=================================
22
23 My environment is;
24 Machine : Tiger4
25 Domain0 OS : RHEL5
26 DomainU OS : RHEL5
27
28 1. Download source
29 # hg clone http://xenbits.xensource.com/ext/ia64/xen-unstable.hg
30 # cd xen-unstable.hg
31 # hg clone http://xenbits.xensource.com/ext/ia64/linux-2.6.18-xen.hg
32
33 2. # make world
34
35 3. # make install-tools
36
37 4. copy kernels and xen
38 # cp xen/xen.gz /boot/efi/efi/redhat/
39 # cp build-linux-2.6.18-xen_ia64/vmlinux.gz \
40 /boot/efi/efi/redhat/vmlinuz-2.6.18.8-xen
41
42 5. make initrd for Dom0/DomU
43 # make -C linux-2.6.18-xen.hg ARCH=ia64 modules_install \
44 O=$(/bin/pwd)/build-linux-2.6.18-xen_ia64
45 # mkinitrd -f /boot/efi/efi/redhat/initrd-2.6.18.8-xen.img \
46 2.6.18.8-xen --builtin mptspi --builtin mptbase \
47 --builtin mptscsih --builtin uhci-hcd --builtin ohci-hcd \
48 --builtin ehci-hcd
49
50================================
51Making a disk image for guest OS
52================================
53
54 1. make file
55 # dd if=/dev/zero of=/root/rhel5.img bs=1M seek=4096 count=0
56 # mke2fs -F -j /root/rhel5.img
57 # mount -o loop /root/rhel5.img /mnt
58 # cp -ax /{dev,var,etc,usr,bin,sbin,lib} /mnt
59 # mkdir /mnt/{root,proc,sys,home,tmp}
60
61 Note: You may miss some device files. If so, please create them
62 with mknod. Or you can use tar instead of cp.
63
64 2. modify DomU's fstab
65 # vi /mnt/etc/fstab
66 /dev/xvda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
67 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
68 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
69 none /proc proc defaults 0 0
70 none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
71
72 3. modify inittab
73 set runlevel to 3 to avoid X trying to start
74 # vi /mnt/etc/inittab
75 id:3:initdefault:
76 Start a getty on the hvc0 console
77 X0:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty hvc0
78 tty1-6 mingetty can be commented out
79
80 4. add hvc0 into /etc/securetty
81 # vi /mnt/etc/securetty (add hvc0)
82
83 5. umount
84 # umount /mnt
85
86FYI, virt-manager can also make a disk image for guest OS.
87It's GUI tools and easy to make it.
88
89==================
90Boot Xen & Domain0
91==================
92
93 1. replace elilo
94 elilo of RHEL5 can boot Xen and Dom0.
95 If you use old elilo (e.g RHEL4), please download from the below
96 http://elilo.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/blosxom
97 and copy into /boot/efi/efi/redhat/
98 # cp elilo-3.6-ia64.efi /boot/efi/efi/redhat/elilo.efi
99
100 2. modify elilo.conf (like the below)
101 # vi /boot/efi/efi/redhat/elilo.conf
102 prompt
103 timeout=20
104 default=xen
105 relocatable
106
107 image=vmlinuz-2.6.18.8-xen
108 label=xen
109 vmm=xen.gz
110 initrd=initrd-2.6.18.8-xen.img
111 read-only
112 append=" -- rhgb root=/dev/sda2"
113
114The append options before "--" are for xen hypervisor,
115the options after "--" are for dom0.
116
117FYI, your machine may need console options like
118"com1=19200,8n1 console=vga,com1". For example,
119append="com1=19200,8n1 console=vga,com1 -- rhgb console=tty0 \
120console=ttyS0 root=/dev/sda2"
121
122=====================================
123Getting and Building domU with pv_ops
124=====================================
125
126 1. get pv_ops tree
127 # git clone http://people.valinux.co.jp/~yamahata/xen-ia64/linux-2.6-xen-ia64.git/
128
129 2. git branch (if necessary)
130 # cd linux-2.6-xen-ia64/
131 # git checkout -b your_branch origin/xen-ia64-domu-minimal-2008may19
132 (Note: The current branch is xen-ia64-domu-minimal-2008may19.
133 But you would find the new branch. You can see with
134 "git branch -r" to get the branch lists.
135 http://people.valinux.co.jp/~yamahata/xen-ia64/for_eagl/linux-2.6-ia64-pv-ops.git/
136 is also available. The tree is based on
137 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6 test)
138
139
140 3. copy .config for pv_ops of domU
141 # cp arch/ia64/configs/xen_domu_wip_defconfig .config
142
143 4. make kernel with pv_ops
144 # make oldconfig
145 # make
146
147 5. install the kernel and initrd
148 # cp vmlinux.gz /boot/efi/efi/redhat/vmlinuz-2.6-pv_ops-xenU
149 # make modules_install
150 # mkinitrd -f /boot/efi/efi/redhat/initrd-2.6-pv_ops-xenU.img \
151 2.6.26-rc3xen-ia64-08941-g1b12161 --builtin mptspi \
152 --builtin mptbase --builtin mptscsih --builtin uhci-hcd \
153 --builtin ohci-hcd --builtin ehci-hcd
154
155========================
156Boot DomainU with pv_ops
157========================
158
159 1. make config of DomU
160 # vi /etc/xen/rhel5
161 kernel = "/boot/efi/efi/redhat/vmlinuz-2.6-pv_ops-xenU"
162 ramdisk = "/boot/efi/efi/redhat/initrd-2.6-pv_ops-xenU.img"
163 vcpus = 1
164 memory = 512
165 name = "rhel5"
166 disk = [ 'file:/root/rhel5.img,xvda1,w' ]
167 root = "/dev/xvda1 ro"
168 extra= "rhgb console=hvc0"
169
170 2. After boot xen and dom0, start xend
171 # /etc/init.d/xend start
172 ( In the debugging case, # XEND_DEBUG=1 xend trace_start )
173
174 3. start domU
175 # xm create -c rhel5
176
177=========
178Reference
179=========
180- Wiki of Xen/IA64 upstream merge
181 http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenIA64/UpstreamMerge
182
183Written by Akio Takebe <takebe_akio@jp.fujitsu.com> on 28 May 2008