System Administration Commands xend(1M)
NAME
xend - xVM control daemon
SYNOPSIS
/usr/lib/xend
DESCRIPTION
The xend daemon provides control of the Solaris xVM domains
on a system. Its administrative interface is xm(1M). Service Management Facility SupportThe xend service is managed by the service management facil-
ity, smf(5), under the service identifier:svc:/system/xvm/xend:default
Administrative actions on this service, such as enabling, disabling, or requesting restart, can be performed using svcadm(1M). The service's status can be queried using the svcs(1) command.xend Properties
The xend service instance has the properties listed below.
These properties are administered by means of svccfg(1M) and svcadm(1M).config/default-nic
Specifies the default network interface used for guest domain networking. By default, the empty string is specified, in which case the first interface listed inthe output of dladm(1M) show-link is used. If you need
to use a different interface, for example, bge0, you should change this property appropriately.config/dom0-cpus
The number of physical CPUs to be used for the virtual CPUs of the control domain (dom0). The default of 0 implies that each virtual CPU will be placed on its own physical CPU where possible. Note that physical CPUs can still be shared between dom0 and other domains unless they are configured not to do so.config/dom0-min-mem
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The minimum amount of memory guaranteed to the control domain (dom0). The default is 196 (MB). Using the xVM milestone service, svc:/milestone/xvm, or the Hypervisor Visual Panel will change this value to whichever is lower, half of system memory or 2048 (MB).config/enable-dump
Controls whether a domain core dump should be created if a domain crashes. Dumps are generated in /var/xen/dump and can be processed with mdb(1). The default is true. config/vncpasswd Sets the password required by any client connecting to aVNC session for a guest domain. Defaults to "" (no pass-
word). VNC password authentication is not secure and should not be used for securing guest domain consoles.config/vnc-listen
Address to listen on for VNC connections. By default this is 127.0.0.1, which has a special meaning: onlyusers or processes with the PRIV_VIRT_MANAGE privilege
are allowed to connect, and they must be logged on locally. If you set this to any other value, then anyone will be able to connect to VNC sessions, regardless of authorization.config/xend-relocation-address
Address that xend listens on for relocation requests. If
blank or not present, all interfaces are used. The default is 127.0.0.1.config/xend-relocation-hosts-allow
A space-separated list of regular expressions. If the
host name of a system matches any one of the given regu-
lar expressions, it is allowed to connect and interact with the relocation server, if the server has beenenabled by the xend-relocation-server property. The
default is ^localhost$.
config/xend-relocation-server
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Controls whether the xend relocation server (for live
migration) should listen for relocation requests on TCP port 8002. The default is true.config/xend-unix-server
Controls whether the legacy HTTP server interface should be provided on the local machine. The default is true.EXAMPLES
Example 1 Modifying an Existing Property Use the following sequence of commands to modify an existingxend property.
# svccfg -s svc:/system/xvm/xend:default listprop
# svccfg -s svc:/system/xvm/xend:default setprop config/dom0-cpus = 1
# svcadm refresh svc:/system/xvm/xend:default
Example 2 Enabling Live MigrationBy default, xend listens only on the loopback address for
requests from the localhost. If you want to allow other machines to live migrate to the local machine, you need toconfigure xend appropriately. For example:
# svccfg -s svc:system/xvm/xend
svc:/system/xvm/xend> setprop config/xend-relocation-address = ""
svc:/system/xvm/xend> setprop config/xend-relocation-hosts-allow = \
"^flax$ ^localhost$"
svc:/system/xvm/xend> end
# svcadm refresh svc:system/xvm/xend:default && \
svcadm restart svc:system/xvm/xend:default
FILES/var/log/xen/xend.log
/var/log/xen/xend-debug.log
Log files for xend.
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/var/xen/dump/ Domain crash dump files.ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attri-
butes:____________________________________________________________
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
|_____________________________|_____________________________|
| Availability | system/xvm/header-xvm |
|_____________________________|_____________________________|
| Interface Stability | Volatile ||_____________________________|_____________________________|
SEE ALSO
mdb(1), svcs(1), dladm(1M), svcadm(1M), svccfg(1M), xm(1M), attributes(5), privileges(5), smf(5), xVM(5)SunOS 5.11 Last change: 14 Oct 2009 4