Operation Walk-Throughs

Let’s trace through interesting operations to see how the whole system works.

Starting a VM
Complete walkthrough of starting a VM, from receiving the request to unpause.
Building a VM
After VM_create, VM_build builds the core of the domain (vCPUs, memory)
- 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.
Migrating a VM
Walkthrough of migrating a VM from one host to another.
Live Migration
Sequence diagram of the process of Live Migration.

Inspiration for other walk-throughs: