Configuring A Virtual Machine By Modifying Its Xend Settings - Novell XEN - ADMINISTRATION Manual

• To check the status of the xend daemon, enter rcxend status.
The parameters in the xend-config.sxp file can be customized to meet your re-
quirements for virtualization. For a full list of all available options, read the manual
page of xend-config.sxp.
4.3 Configuring a Virtual Machine by
The machine settings of each virtual guest are stored in an internal database managed
by xend. You can change a virtual machine's settings by modifying the settings stored
in xend. This process requires you to export a virtual machine's settings from the xend
database to a text file, edit the settings in the file to meet your configuration requirements,
import the file back into xend, and restart the virtual machine.
NOTE
It is no longer recommended that you edit the initial startup files stored in
/etc/xen/vm, because they are used only during the creation of a new virtual
machine.
To modify a virtual machine's settings that is administrated with the virtual machine
manager:
1 At Domain0, enter
2 Use a text editor to make and save any desired changes.
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Modifying its xend Settings
xm list -l vm_name > filename
where vm_name is the name of the virtual machine you want to modify and
filename is whatever you want to name the text file.
(domain
(domid 1)
(on_crash destroy)
(memory 384)
(uuid 4fbcb943-871c-9a51-3a48-3ad99d933841)
(bootloader_args '- -entry=xvda2:/boot/vmlinuz-xen,/boot/initrd-xen')