Creating Default Services

The following virtual device services must be created to use the control domain as a service domain and to create virtual devices for other domains:

• vcc – Virtual console concentrator service

• vds – Virtual disk server

• vsw – Virtual switch service

How to Create Default Services

1. Create a virtual console concentrator (vcc) service for use by the virtual network terminal server daemon (vntsd) and as a concentrator for all logical domain consoles.

   For example, the following command would add a virtual console concentrator service (primary-vcc0) with a port range from 5000 to 5100 to the control domain (primary).

   primary# ldm add-vcc port-range=5000-5100 primary-vcc0 primary

2. Create a virtual disk server (vds) to allow importing virtual disks into a logical domain.

   For example, the following command adds a virtual disk server (primary-vds0) to the control domain (primary).

   primary# ldm add-vds primary-vds0 primary

3. Create a virtual switch service (vsw) to enable networking between virtual network (vnet) devices in logical domains.

   Assign a GLDv3-compliant network adapter to the virtual switch if each logical domain must communicate outside the box through the virtual switch.

   Add a virtual switch service (primary-vsw0) on a network device that you want to use for guest domain networking.

   primary# ldm add-vsw net-dev=network-device vsw-service primary

   For example, the following command adds a virtual switch service (primary-vsw0) on network device net0 to the control domain (primary):

   primary# ldm add-vsw net-dev=net0 primary-vsw0 primary

   You can use the ldm list-netdev -b command to determine the backend network devices that are available for the virtual switch. See Virtual Switch.

   You can dynamically update the net-dev property value by using the ldm set-vsw command.

4. Verify the services have been created by using the list-services subcommand.

   Your output should look similar to the following:

   primary# ldm list-services primary
   VDS
       NAME             VOLUME         OPTIONS          DEVICE
       primary-vds0
    
   VCC
       NAME             PORT-RANGE
       primary-vcc0     5000-5100
    
   VSW
       NAME             MAC               NET-DEV   DEVICE     MODE
       primary-vsw0     02:04:4f:fb:9f:0d net0      switch@0   prog,promisc