Re: [Xen-devel] Boot dom0 and mini-OS guest in parallel

[Rolf Neugebauer <rn@xxxxxxx>]

I've done something like this about 2 1/2 years ago. IIRC it was
pretty much what cristopher outlines below (dom0 build patches plus a
few other bits and bobs). I probably have the now heavily outdated
patches floating around somewhere. Drop me an email and I'll dig them
out.

Rolf

2009/7/6 Christopher Clark <christopher.w.clark@xxxxxxxxx>:
> It's not implemented now, as far as I can tell from a quick scan of
> the unstable source, but it's doable if you're up for a project.
>
> Xen does relocation of modules passed at boot which is how the dom0
> kernel and its initrd are loaded.
>
> You could specify another module to grub that Xen will relocate and
> then construct a domain around it within Xen, in a similar fashion to
> the way dom0 is constructed.
>
> See the dom0 construction code in:
>
> xen/arch/x86/domain_build.c : construct_dom0
> and
> xen/arch/x86/setup.c : __start_xen
>
> I'm not familar enough with ia64 to pass similar pointers there, and
> I'm not sure what it'd take to build a neat enough implementation that
> it'd be considered for merge.
>
> Christopher
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Lucio Maciel<luciofm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm using xen virtualization, and I writing a very security sensitive
>> software that I want to run completely isolated, running it on a
>> mini-OS or a very small/tight Linux guest.
>>
>> That's OK, but I also want it to boot in parallel with dom0, directly
>> from the xen hypervisor, avoiding the need to first boot the dom0 and
>> then boot my small self-contained guest.
>>
>> Is that possible? Or what should I know before trying to add this
>> functionality to the xen hypervisor?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Lúcio Maciel
>> luciofm@xxxxxxxxx
>>
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