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Re: [Xen-devel] can I boot privilleged dom like dom0 via xm create
hi
I am interested in this issue, and I wonder wether we could manage
dom0 in xen architecture, that is ,to boot dom0, to reboot it ,to store
it ,or restore it ,while suspending domU in memory ,through some domctl
whenever necessary, or could we develop some new hypercall to make it
work ,or does xen architecture have some inherent limit in itself and
have no compatibility with this potential augment? and why not or
how to achieve it , could some one give some advise on it
Thanks in advance
Mark Williamson 写道:
Ruby,
Further to what Derek has said, I'd like to point out that what kernel you use
never affects the privilege of the guest.
All the -xen0 kernel name means is that the kernel /can/ do dom0 stuff. This
is as opposed to a -xenU kernel, which has had the dom0 support removed from
it. Removing the dom0 support in a xenU kernel is done /only to make the
kernel smaller/. It doesn't have any effect on security or privilege.
Actually, most distributions seem to now supply one -xen kernel that is used
both in dom0 and domU.
This is because, as Derek mentioned, Xen enforces the privileges of guests
itself and doesn't have to trust their kernels. This is different to how
User Mode Linux works, since in that system the kernel itself enforces the
virtual machine boundaries. You can securely run any kernel you want in a
domU - even one supplied by the user - because Xen will contain it.
Cheers,
Mark
At present, there is no way to do this with xm. In the hypervisor,
each struct domain has an is_privileged attribute (which is at present
only set when dom0 is created at boot). You could add a domctl to
control the setting of this bit, and then write a small C program that
uses do_domctl from libxc to set the privilege on a domain.
However, simply running two privileged domains with parallel sets of
Xen tools is unlikely to work, for example because you will end up
with two instances of XenStore.
Regards,
Derek Murray.
2008/6/13 ruby young <yangyang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
Hi all,
I'm using vmlinuz-2.6.18-xen0 as domU kernel and I boot it via xm
create. But the kernel didn't panic, it's running but all of xen tools
can not work. I am surprised at this.
Now My question whether I can boot privilleged dom like dom0 via xm
create ? and how can I do it?
I am looking forwards to your suggestions.
Best wishes
Ruby Young
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