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• To stop the Xend daemon, enter rcxend stop
.
• To restart the Xend daemon, enter rcxend restart
.
• 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
.
5.3 Configuring a Virtual Machine by
Modifying its Xend Settings
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.
Some commonly used configurations can be done online with the
xm
command. These
include the attachment or detachment of virtual block, network or PCI devices. For
more details, see the manual page of
xm
.
NOTE
It is no longer recommended that you edit the initial start-up 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, first shut it down and then:
1 At Domain0, enter
xm list -l vm_name > filename
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