Building a VM

flowchart
subgraph xenopsd VM_build[xenopsd: VM_build micro#8209;op]
direction LR
VM_build --> VM.build
VM.build --> VM.build_domain
VM.build_domain --> VM.build_domain_exn
VM.build_domain_exn --> Domain.build
click VM_build "
https://github.com/xapi-project/xen-api/blob/83555067/ocaml/xenopsd/lib/xenops_server.ml#L2255-L2271" _blank
click VM.build "
https://github.com/xapi-project/xen-api/blob/83555067/ocaml/xenopsd/xc/xenops_server_xen.ml#L2290-L2291" _blank
click VM.build_domain "
https://github.com/xapi-project/xen-api/blob/83555067/ocaml/xenopsd/xc/xenops_server_xen.ml#L2250-L2288" _blank
click VM.build_domain_exn "
https://github.com/xapi-project/xen-api/blob/83555067/ocaml/xenopsd/xc/xenops_server_xen.ml#L2024-L2248" _blank
click Domain.build "
https://github.com/xapi-project/xen-api/blob/83555067/ocaml/xenopsd/xc/domain.ml#L1111-L1210" _blank
end

Walk-through documents for the VM_build phase:

• VM_build μ-op

  Overview of the VM_build μ-op (runs after the VM_create μ-op created the domain).

• Domain.build

  Prepare the build of a VM: Wait for scrubbing, do NUMA placement, run xenguest.

• xenguest

  Perform building VMs: Allocate and populate the domain's system memory.