Xen installation

Xen Installation on x86-64 platform

The section contains the instruction to install XEN (version RELEASE4.11) on Ubuntu 16.04.

Build Dependencies

Install the following packages:

 # apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade #update/upgrade the kernel
 # apt-get install build-essential
 # apt-get install bcc bin86 gawk bridge-utils iproute 
 # apt-get install libcurl3 libcurl4-openssl-dev bzip2 module-init-tools transfig tgif
 # apt-get install texinfo texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-recommended texlive-fonts-extra texlive-fonts-recommended
 # apt-get install pciutils-dev mercurial
 # apt-get install make gcc libc6-dev zlib1g-dev python python-dev python-twisted 
 # apt-get install libncurses5-dev patch libsdl-dev libjpeg-dev
 # apt-get install libvncserver-dev
 # apt-get install iasl libbz2-dev e2fslibs-dev git-core uuid-dev 
 # apt-get install ocaml ocaml-findlib libx11-dev bison flex xz-utils libyajl-dev
 # apt-get install gettext libpixman-1-dev libaio-dev markdown pandoc
 # apt-get install libc6-dev-i386
 # apt-get install lzma lzma-dev liblzma-dev #for rombios
 # apt-get install libsystemd-dev 

Configure and build

Clone the Xen repository and switch to the chosen version (i.e., RELEASE4.11):

 $ git clone https://github.com/xen-project/xen.git
 $ git checkout RELEASE-4.11.0 -b RELEASE-4.11.0

Configure and build:

 $ cd xen
 $ ./configure -enable-systemd
 $ make dist

Install

The following operations has to be performed with root privilege.

Install:

 # make install

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.

Update grub and reboot:

 # udate-grub
 # reboot