To use Red Hat Virtualization to manage domain0, you will constantly making changes to the grub.conf configuration file, that resides in the /etc directory. Because of the large number of domains to manage, many system administrators prefer to use the 'cut and paste' method when editing grub.conf . If you do this, make sure that you include all five lines in the Virtualization entry (or this will create system errors). If you require Xen hypervisor specific values, you must add the to the 'xen' line. This example represents a correct grub.conf Virtualization entry:
# boot=/dev/sda/ default=0 timeout=15 #splashimage=(hd0, 0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu serial --unit=0 --speed=115200 --word=8 --parity=no --stop=1 terminal --timeout=10 serial console title Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (2.6.17-1.2519.4.21. el5xen) root (hd0, 0) kernel /xen.gz-2.6.17-1.2519.4.21.el5 com1=115200, 8n1 module /vmlinuz-2.6.17-1.2519.4.21el5xen ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 module /initrd-2.6.17-1.2519.4.21.el5xen.img
For example, if you need to change your dom0 hypervisor's memory to 256MB at boot time, you must edit the 'xen' line and append it with the correct entry, 'dom0_mem=256M' . This example represents the respective grub.conf xen entry:
# boot=/dev/sda default=0 timeout=15 #splashimage=(hd0,0)/grubs/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu serial --unit=0 --speed =115200 --word=8 --parity=no --stop=1 terminal --timeout=10 serial console title Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (2.6.17-1.2519.4.21. el5xen) root (hd0,0) kernel /xen.gz-2.6.17-1.2519.4.21.el5 com1=115200, 8n1 dom0_mem=256MB module /vmlinuz-2.6.17-1.2519.4.21.el5xen ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 module /initrd-2.6.17-1.2519.4.21.el5xen.img