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Xen 3.0 Virtualization User Guide
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5.1 Configuration Files

Xen configuration files contain the following standard variables. Unless otherwise stated, configuration items should be enclosed in quotes: see the configuration scripts in /etc/xen/ for concrete examples.

kernel
Path to the kernel image.
ramdisk
Path to a ramdisk image (optional).
memory
Memory size in megabytes.
vcpus
The number of virtual CPUs.
console
Port to export the domain console on (default 9600 + domain ID).
vif
Network interface configuration. This may simply contain an empty string for each desired interface, or may override various settings, e.g.
vif = [ 'mac=00:16:3E:00:00:11, bridge=xen-br0',
        'bridge=xen-br1' ]
to assign a MAC address and bridge to the first interface and assign a different bridge to the second interface, leaving xend to choose the MAC address. The settings that may be overridden in this way are type, mac, bridge, ip, script, backend, and vifname.
disk
List of block devices to export to the domain e.g. disk = [ 'phy:hda1,sda1,r' ] exports physical device /dev/hda1 to the domain as /dev/sda1 with read-only access. Exporting a disk read-write which is currently mounted is dangerous - if you are certain you wish to do this, you can specify w! as the mode.
dhcp
Set to `dhcp' if you want to use DHCP to configure networking.
netmask
Manually configured IP netmask.
gateway
Manually configured IP gateway.
hostname
Set the hostname for the virtual machine.
root
Specify the root device parameter on the kernel command line.
nfs_server
IP address for the NFS server (if any).
nfs_root
Path of the root filesystem on the NFS server (if any).
extra
Extra string to append to the kernel command line (if any)

Additional fields are documented in the example configuration files (e.g. to configure virtual TPM functionality).

For additional flexibility, it is also possible to include Python scripting commands in configuration files. An example of this is the xmexample2 file, which uses Python code to handle the vmid variable.

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