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Revision as of 08:49, 6 May 2019
The section contains the instruction to install Xen hypervisor on platform x86_64 with one of the following operating system:
- Ubuntu 16.04
- Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS
Build Dependencies
Install the following packages:
# apt update && apt dist-upgrade #update/upgrade the kernel # apt install build-essential # apt install bcc bin86 gawk bridge-utils iproute2 # apt install libcurl4 libcurl4-openssl-dev bzip2 module-init-tools transfig tgif # apt install texinfo texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-recommended texlive-fonts-extra texlive-fonts-recommended # apt install pciutils-dev mercurial # apt install make gcc libc6-dev zlib1g-dev python python-dev python-twisted # apt install libncurses5-dev patch libsdl-dev libjpeg-dev # apt install libvncserver-dev # apt install iasl libbz2-dev e2fslibs-dev git-core uuid-dev # apt install ocaml ocaml-findlib libx11-dev bison flex xz-utils libyajl-dev # apt install gettext libpixman-1-dev libaio-dev markdown pandoc # apt install libc6-dev-i386 # apt install lzma lzma-dev liblzma-dev #for rombios # apt install libsystemd-dev
Retrieve the GRUB version
The Xen installation strictly depends on the installed Grub version: grub-pc or grub-efi.
In order to retrieve the grub version, launch the following command:
$ dpkg --get-selections | grep grub
Xen Installation
Retrieve Xen source
Clone the Xen repository and switch to the chosen version (i.e., RELEASE 4.11):
$ git clone https://github.com/xen-project/xen.git $ cd xen $ git checkout RELEASE-4.11.0 -b RELEASE-4.11.0
In the following part of the tutorial, we refer to the Xen repository path as $XENPATH.
Configure
Configure:
$ $XENPATH/configure --enable-systemd
In case of Xen EFI (as for example in Ubuntu 18.04.01), add the option --enable-targets=x86_64-pep as follows:
$ $XENPATH/configure --enable-systemd --enable-targets=x86_64-pep
Build and install
Build all components (hypervisor, tools, docs, stubdomains, etc):
$ cd $XENPATH $ make dist
Install (as root):
# make install
Enable the Xen services
Reload dynamic libraries:
# /sbin/ldconfig
Enable systemd Xen services:
# systemctl enable xen-qemu-dom0-disk-backend.service # systemctl enable xen-init-dom0.service # systemctl enable xenconsoled.service # systemctl enable xenstored.service # systemctl enable xendomains.service
Note that in case of error for enabling xendomains service, remove /etc/init.d/xendomains.
Finally, update grub and reboot:
# udate-grub # reboot
