Design documents

Design documents and implementation details for the Xen hypervisor itself. This is intended for developers working on the Xen hypervisor, and for those interested in the internal workings of Xen.

• 1. Hyperlaunch Design Document
  • 1.1. Introduction
  • 1.2. Document Structure
  • 1.3. Approach
  • 1.4. Requirements and Design
  • 1.5. Communication of Domain Configurations
  • 1.6. Appendix
• 2. Xen Hyperlaunch Device Tree Bindings
  • 2.1. Example Configuration
  • 2.2. The Hypervisor node
  • 2.3. The Config node
  • 2.4. The Domain node
  • 2.5. The Module node
• 3. NUMA-aware Claim Sets
  • 3.1. Use Cases
  • 3.2. Claims Design
  • 3.3. Claims Accounting
  • 3.4. Claim Installation Paths
  • 3.5. Protection of Claims
  • 3.6. Claim Consumption
  • 3.7. Claims Implementation
  • 3.8. Handling Edge Cases