How to create a PV image for XEN

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    PV image means the guest OS should be modified in XEN. The following are the steps of how to create a PV image which support vtpm for XEN.  BTW, you should have following  prerequisites if you want to use vtpm feature.

Prerequisites:

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• You must have an x86 machine with a TPM on the motherboard.
• Compile and install the Xen tree as usual; be sure that the vTPM domains are  enabled when you run configure.
• Compiling the LINUX dom0 kernel without  TPM driver or  blacklisting the module

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    Then I will use the easiest type of guest OS (ubuntu 12.10) to make as an example :

   Step 1  create file system

      1.  Create an empty file to hold the PV image.

        #dd if=/dev/zero of=ubt-pv.img bs=1 count=1 seek=10G

    2.  Formatting the newly created file.

        #mkfs.ext4   ubt-pv.img

           you may format the file to be other file system types.

       3.   Mount the file as a loop device

        #mount –o loop ubt-pv.img      /mnt/

     4.  We can use debootstrap command to generate system files.

      # debootstrap wheezy  /mnt/  http://http.debian.net/debian/

     or you can create a clean operation system on your host ,then copy the "/" contents to /mnt

    Step 2  Build PV kernel

    The domU kernel used by domains with vtpms must include the xen-tpmfront.ko  driver. It can be built directly into the kernel or as a module. And the kernel  patches you can find at  

     git clone  https://github.com/trust2virt/domuKernel.git

 

     1.  #make menuconfig

    processor type and feathers –> pavavirtualized guest support

    device drivers ---> network device support---> xen network device frontend driver    --    built-in

    device drivers ---> character devices ---> TPM Hardware Support ----> XEN TPM interface  --- built-in

    

    check the .config, make sure the following CONFIGs are set to y:

    CONFIG_XEN

    CONFIG_PARAVIRT

    CONFIG_PARAVIRT_GUEST

    CONFIG_XEN_BLKDEV_FRONTEND

    CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND

    CONFIG_HVC_XEN

    CONFIG_HVC_XEN_FRONTEND

    CONFIG_TCG_TPM

    CONFIG_TCG_XEN

    2.  build  

    #make

    3.   install

     #make modules_install INSTALL_MOD_PATH=/mnt/

     #make install INSTALL_PATH=/mnt/boot

    4.   create grub.cfg file   

    #mkdir /mnt/boot/grub 

    #cd /mnt/boot/grub

    #touch grub.cfg

    file content as below:

    default 0

    timeout 5

     title ubt-pv

        root    (hd0) 

        kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version root=/dev/xvda1 ro  

        initrd /boot/initrd-version.img

    5. #umount /mnt

     then the ubu-pv.img is DONE!

    6. create PV configure file 

    kernel="/usr/local/lib/xen/boot/pv-grub-x86_64.gz"

    extra="(hd0)/boot/grub/grub.conf"

    vcpus = 1

    memory = 1024

    name = "ubtPV-2"

    vif = [ 'bridge=xenbr0' ]

    disk = [ 'file:/opt/pv-image/ubtpv.img,xvda1,w']

    vtpm=["backend=vtpm2"]         // vtpm2 is the backend device of PV

 

    7. #xl create

    # xl list

    DONE！