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- 2ImageBuilder
- 3Important Notes
Booting Xen from U-Boot requires:
Xen is a virtual machine monitor for x86 that supports execution of multiple guest operating systems with unprecedented levels of performance and resource isolation. This package contains the control tools that allow you to start, stop, migrate, and manage virtual machines. In addition to this package you need to install xen and xen-libs to use. Xen GPL PV Driver Developers. DriverPack Online will find and install the drivers you need automatically. Install Xen GPL PV Driver Developers Xen PVUSB Device Driver driver for Windows 10 x86, or download DriverPack Solution software for automatic driver installation and update.
- loading all the required binaries, manually specifying the loading address for each of them making sure they don't overlap
- Xen, Dom0 kernel, Dom0 ramdisk, device tree binary, any Dom0-less DomUs kernels, ramdisk and partial dtbs for passthrough
- adding relevant nodes to device tree
- the Dom0 kernel and ramdisk loading addresses need to be specified in device tree under /chosen
See booting.txt as a reference.
The whole process can be automated with ImageBuilder:
ImageBuilder can be invoked as a container for build automation, but its useful scripts can also be called manually. Specifically, script/uboot-script-gen generates a U-Boot script that loads all the necessary binaries and automatically adds the required entries to device tree at boot time. In order to use it, you need to write a config file first.
Config file
The fields are self explanatory but you can find more detailed information on the readme. Make sure to use raw binaries for Xen, all the kernels and rootfs's, not U-Boot binaries (do not use the output of mkimage).
uboot-script-gen
Once you have the config file, you can call uboot-script-gen as follows:
uboot-script-gen generates a U-Boot script named boot.scr that will load all your binaries automatically using tftp.
All the path specified in the config file are relative to the directory passed as an argument to -d. In this case, Image-dom0 and dom1/Image-domU must be relative to the current directory, because we are passing -d . to uboot-script-gen.
Now, you just need to load the generated boot.scr and source it from U-Boot:
The command used to load the binaries can be customized, for instance you can have uboot-script-gen generate a U-Boot script that loads binaries from a SD card passing -t sd, which is a syntactic sugar for -t 'load scsi 0:1':
Xen and Dom0 command line
ImageBuilder uses sched=null by default. If you want to change it, and also modify other Xen and/or Dom0 command line options you'll make to edit the generated U-Boot script: boot.source. Look for sched=null in the source and edit as needed. Then you need to regenerate boot.scr using mkimage and specifying the same loading address for the boot.scr as printed earlier by uboot-script-gen:
U-Boot binaries vs. raw binaries
uboot-script-gen takes only raw binaries as input. If you have a U-Boot binary in your hands and you want to convert it back to a raw binary, you can do that with the following command:
Xen booting as raw binary
If you use a version of Xen older than 4.12, you need to make sure to have the following commit backported in your Xen tree:
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It is necessary to be able to boot Xen as a raw binary from U-Boot.
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About
xenvbd is the driver that interfaces between the Windows scsiport miniport driver and the Linux blockback driver.
scsiport
Almost all of the Windows scsiport code runs at a very high IRQL, and there is a long list of things that cannot be done at a high IRQL. The main things are spinlocks, memory allocation, and waiting for events. scsiport makes sure that all the code is properly synchronised so spinlocks aren't a problem, and xenpci takes care of all the xenbus stuff so waiting for events isn't a problem. Not being able to allocate memory is a huge pain though.
x32 vs x64
Because of some alignment issues, the block front/back ring structure is different between 32 and 64 bit environments. This is a problem if Dom0 is one and DomU is the other. Later versions of xen (3.2+ I think) take care of this by publishing the abi used in xenbus and adjusting accordingly. My Dom0 is Debian which at the time or writing has blockback code which predates this. To get around this we put a few requests on the ring and see what they look like when they come back. If our alignment is wrong we switch ring configurations on the fly. It's messy, but it works.
Unaligned buffers
xenvbd only allows buffers aligned on a 512 byte (sector size) boundary. Windows doesn't have this limitation, so will hand xenvbd buffers on almost any alignment, but only sometimes. Almost all of the time the buffers are 512 bytes in size, rarely they are up to 4096 bytes in size, very rarely they are up to 8192 bytes in size, and even more rarely they are more than that (I've only seen it when Windows does a chkdsk on boot).
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Unfortunately we can't allocate bounce buffers on the fly, so to get around this we tell windows we want a per-SRB (Windows SCSI request structure) buffer of 4096 bytes, and pass that to blockback, and copy the data to the buffer (on write) or from the buffer (on read). If windows wants to transfer more than that we have to go through the SRB multiple times. This is slower, but should happen rarely enough that performance it isn't a problem.
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