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# Execution

In order to execute Stardust on the Xen you will need to use the **xl** command tool provided by the hypervisor on Dom0 as shown in the following command, where **stardust.conf** is a configuration file that specified metadata such as the location of the virtual machine image, the virtual hardware requirements that need to be accommodated. Optionally, it may also be used to specify a disk image that can be accessed by Stardust at run-time.

```
$ xl create -c stardust.conf
```

In order to stop the execution of Stardust you can use the following command:

```
$ xl destroy stardust
```