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+[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+
+[[meta license="""[[toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[toggleable
+id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
+document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
+any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant
+Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license
+is included in the section entitled
+[[GNU_Free_Documentation_License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
+
+[[toc ]]
+
+## Xen dom0, hypervisor
+
+/!\ Now that GNU Mach handles PAE you can use a PAE-enabled hypervisor.
+
+You can either get binaries at <http://youpibouh.thefreecat.org/hurd-xen/> or build them yourself.
+
+- Copy `gnumach-xen` and `hurd-modules` to your dom0 /boot.
+- Copy `hurd` into `/etc/xen`, edit it for fixing access to your hurd / and swap
+
+## GNU/Hurd system
+
+/!\ You need an already installed GNU/Hurd system.
+
+If you have a free partition, you can fdisk to type 0x83, create a filesystem using:
+
+ sudo mke2fs -b 4096 -I 128 -o hurd /dev/sda4
+
+Replace /dev/sda4 with your partition. Install and use crosshurd to setup a GNU/Hurd system on this partition.
+
+## /etc/xen/hurd configuration
+
+Here is a sample /etc/xen/hurd configuration
+
+ kernel = "/boot/gnumach-xen"
+ memory = 256
+ disk = ['phy:sda4,hda,w']
+ extra = "root=device:hd0"
+ vif = [ '' ]
+ ramdisk = "/boot/hurd-modules"
+
+Suggestions about [[networking_configuration]] are available.
+
+If you need stable MAC addresses, use a syntax like `vif = [
+'mac=00:16:3e:XX:XX:XX, bridge=br0' ]`.
+
+## Running Hurd with Xen
+
+To run Hurd with Xen, use:
+
+ xm create -c hurd
+
+and gnumach should get started. Proceed with native-install.
+
+ export TERM=mach
+ ./native-install
+
+- If `xm` complains about networking (`vif could not be connected`), it's Xen scripts' fault, see Xen documentation for how to configure the network. The simplest way is network-bridge with fixed IPs (note that you need the bridge-utils package for this). You can also just disable networking by commenting the vif line in the config.
+- If `xm` complains `Error: (2, 'Invalid kernel', 'xc_dom_compat_check: guest type xen-3.0-x86_32 not supported by xen kernel, sorry\n')`, you most probably have a PAE-enabled hypervisor and a non-PAE gnumach. Either install and boot non-PAE hypervisor and kernel, or rebuilt gnumach in PAE mode.
+
+## Building from sources
+
+If you want to generate these images, first get the `gnumach-1-branch-Xen-branch` branch from gnumach CVS.
+Then look for "Ugly" in `kern/bootstrap.c`, how to generate `hurd-modules` is explained there, and you'll have to fix `EXT2FS_SIZE` and `LD_SO_SIZE` by hand.
+Then use
+
+ ./configure --enable-platform=xen
+ make
+
+The current `hurd-modules` was built from the debian packages `hurd 20070606-2` and `libc0.3 2.6.1-1`.
+/!\ This means that when using this image, your GNU/Hurd system also needs to be a glibc version 2.6-based one!
+
+---
+
+[[Internals]].
+
+[[GNU_Savannah_task 5468]], [[GNU_Savannah_task 6584]].
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+[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+
+[[meta license="""[[toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[toggleable
+id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
+document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
+any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant
+Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license
+is included in the section entitled
+[[GNU_Free_Documentation_License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
+
+The port does use Xen's para-virtualized interface for device (ide, network,
+etc.) access.
+
+[[Virtualization]].
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+[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+
+[[meta license="""[[toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[toggleable
+id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
+document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
+any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant
+Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license
+is included in the section entitled
+[[GNU_Free_Documentation_License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
+
+[[toc ]]
+
+The Xen dom0 infrastructure provides for a bridged networking setup using shell
+scripts to configure the bridging device properly and attach the domUs' virtual
+interfaces to the bridge. However, we've [seen
+problems](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2008-08/msg00023.html)
+when using this approach, so to [solve these
+issues](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2008-09/msg00071.html),
+instead suggest the following configuration method (to achieve the same thing).
+
+This is for a Debian dom0.
+
+# */etc/network/interfaces*
+
+Comment out everything referencing your physical devices. Add this:
+
+ auto br0
+ iface br0 inet dhcp
+ bridge_ports regex (eth|vif).* noregex
+
+... or if you want to do the manual configuration dance:
+
+ auto br0
+ iface br0 inet static
+ bridge_ports regex (eth|vif).* noregex
+ address 192.168.10.60
+ netmask 255.255.255.0
+ [...]
+
+This needs a version of the `bridge-utils` package more recent than the current
+Debian stable one ([[debbug 405215]]). (It's trivial to rebuild the `dpkg` of,
+e.g., the Debian testing one on Debian stable.)
+
+# */etc/xen/xend-config.sxp*
+
+Make sure that only `(network-script network-dummy)` and `(vif-script
+vif-bridge)` are activated and all other `(network-script network-WHATEVER)`,
+respective `(vif-script vif-WHATEVER)` are commented out.
+
+
+# Sample configuration files on Debian Lenny
+
+## /etc/xen/hurd on dom0
+
+ kernel = "/boot/gnumach-xen"
+ memory = 256
+ disk = ['phy:sda5,hda,w']
+ extra = "root=device:hd0"
+ vif = [ 'mac=00:16:3e:00:00:00, bridge=br0' ]
+ ramdisk = "/boot/hurd-modules"
+
+/dev/sda5 is an extended partition. br0 is bridge interface on dom0.
+
+## /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp on dom0
+
+ (network-script 'network-bridge netdev=br0')
+ (dom0-min-mem 196)
+ (dom0-cpus 0)
+ (vncpasswd '')
+
+## /etc/network/interfaces on dom0
+
+ auto br0
+ iface br0 inet static
+ address 192.168.1.211
+ network 192.168.1.0
+ netmask 255.255.255.0
+ broadcast 192.168.1.255
+ gateway 192.168.1.1
+ bridge_ports eth1
+
+eth1 is the interface that is connected to the Internet on the LAN:
+
+## Doing settrans on domU
+
+ settrans -fgap /servers/socket/2 /hurd/pfinet -i eth0 -a 192.168.1.210 -g 192.168.1.1 -m 255.255.255.0
+
+## /sbin/ifconfig on dom0
+
+ br0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:d1:2e:06:33
+ inet addr:192.168.1.211 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
+ inet6 addr: fe80::219:d1ff:fe2e:633/64 Scope:Link
+ UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
+ RX packets:14187 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
+ TX packets:9214 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
+ collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
+ RX bytes:936563 (914.6 KiB) TX bytes:746184 (728.6 KiB)
+
+ eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:d1:2e:06:33
+ inet6 addr: fe80::219:d1ff:fe2e:633/64 Scope:Link
+ UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
+ RX packets:34339 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
+ TX packets:18526 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
+ collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
+ RX bytes:3019251 (2.8 MiB) TX bytes:1453672 (1.3 MiB)