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 Xen is a virtual machine monitor for x86 hardware (requires i686-class  Xen is a virtual machine monitor or hypervisor for x86 hardware
 CPUs), which supports running multiple guest operating systems on a  (i686-class or higher), which supports running multiple guest
 single machine. Guest OSes (also called “domains”) require a modified  operating systems on a single physical machine.  With Xen, one uses
 kernel which supports Xen hypercalls in replacement to access to the  the Xen kernel to control the CPU, memory and console, a dom0
 physical hardware. At boot, the Xen kernel (also known as the Xen  operating system which mediates access to other hardware (e.g., disks,
 hypervisor) is loaded (via the bootloader) along with the guest kernel  network, USB), and one or more domU operating systems which operate in
 for the first domain (called *domain0*). The Xen kernel has to be loaded  an unprivileged virtualized environment.  IO requests from the domU
 using the multiboot protocol. You would use the NetBSD boot loader for  systems are forwarded by the hypervisor (Xen) to the dom0 to be
 this, or alternatively the `grub` boot loader (`grub` has some  fulfilled.
 the physical hardware (PCI and ISA devices), administrate other domains  Xen supports two styles of guests.  The original is Para-Virtualized
 and provide virtual devices (disks and network) to other domains that  (PV) which means that the guest OS does not attempt to access hardware
 lack those privileges. For more details, see [](http://www.xen.org/).  directly, but instead makes hypercalls to the hypervisor.  This is
 NetBSD can be used for both *domain0 (Dom0)* and further, unprivileged  operating system uses PV calls for some functions, such as updating
 (DomU) domains. (Actually there can be multiple privileged domains  memory mapping page tables, but has direct hardware access for disk
 accessing different parts of the hardware, all providing virtual devices  and network.)   PV guests must be specifically coded for Xen.
 privileged domain, *domain0*). *domain0* will see physical devices much  The more recent style is HVM, which means that the guest does not have
 like a regular i386 or amd64 kernel, and will own the physical console  code for Xen and need not be aware that it is running under Xen.
 (VGA or serial). Unprivileged domains will only see a character-only  Attempts to access hardware registers are trapped and emulated.  This
 virtual console, virtual disks (`xbd`) and virtual network interfaces  style is less efficient but can run unmodified guests.
 devices are connected to a block device (i.e., a partition of a disk,  At boot, the dom0 kernel is loaded as module with Xen as the kernel.
 raid, ccd, ... device) in the privileged domain. xennet devices are  The dom0 can start one or more domUs.  (Booting is explained in detail
 connected to virtual devices in the privileged domain, named  in the dom0 section.)
 xennet and xvif devices are seen as regular Ethernet devices (they can  NetBSD supports Xen in that it can serve as dom0, be used as a domU,
 be seen as a crossover cable between 2 PCs) and can be assigned  and that Xen kernels and tools are available in pkgsrc.  This HOWTO
 addresses (and be routed or NATed, filtered using IPF, etc ...) or be  attempts to address both the case of running a NetBSD dom0 on hardware
 added as part of a bridge.  and running NetBSD as a domU in a VPS.
   complex than a normal installation of NetBSD.
   This HOWTO presumes a basic familiarity with the Xen system
   This HOWTO presumes familiarity with installing NetBSD on i386/amd64
   hardware and installing software from pkgsrc.
 Installing NetBSD as privileged domain (Dom0)  Installing NetBSD as privileged domain (Dom0)
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     #!/bin/sh      #!/bin/sh
     # $NetBSD: howto.mdwn,v 1.10 2014/12/23 23:08:37 gdt Exp $      # $NetBSD: howto.mdwn,v 1.11 2014/12/23 23:25:57 gdt Exp $
     #      #
     # /usr/pkg/etc/xen/vif-bridge      # /usr/pkg/etc/xen/vif-bridge
     #      #

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