[libvirt] Need help for thesis on Xen - disabling HAP for benchmarking purposes
Hi, I'm a German student, writing my thesis on "Virtualization with Xen. Analysis and Comparision of Different Techniques such as Paravirtualization, Full Virtualization, and Utilization of Hardware Support Provided by the Processor". I'd like to know how I can disable HAP/RVI/Nested Paging for benchmarking purposes. I read somewhere (http://markmail.org/message/bbnivuqx6vjz7jg4) that Xen developers decided to disable the global grub parameter introducing a per domain flag for HAP instead (hap=0/1). I used virt-manager built in CentOS for setting up all domUs; virt-manager uses libvirt so that no "old-style" configuration files are stored in /etc/xen. I actually don't know how if libvirt-XML-files already support something like <hap>0</hap>. How would you proceed to modify an already existing domain using libvirt/virt-manager? I really do apologize for my "newbie ignorance". Thanks in advance for any useful help. - Alex
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 09:10:24AM +0100, Alexander Sascha wrote:
Hi,
I'm a German student, writing my thesis on "Virtualization with Xen. Analysis and Comparision of Different Techniques such as Paravirtualization, Full Virtualization, and Utilization of Hardware Support Provided by the Processor".
I'd like to know how I can disable HAP/RVI/Nested Paging for benchmarking purposes. I read somewhere (http://markmail.org/message/bbnivuqx6vjz7jg4) that Xen developers decided to disable the global grub parameter introducing a per domain flag for HAP instead (hap=0/1).
There's no way to set this per domain in libvirt. IMHO it was crazy to remove the global boot parameter for it :-( On the other hand, XenD is all python code so trivially modified. So you could easily edit the XenD python code to turn HAP on/off globally when running your benchmarking tests. Regards, Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :|
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