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author | Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> | 2009-04-20 01:14:02 -0400 |
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committer | Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> | 2009-04-19 09:44:02 -0400 |
commit | 38cfe968040250b89c3554a17219a9fda45b9665 (patch) | |
tree | 9a4bcf5f2194ceed0a3f17eb95fb13cbe0b3f3e9 /Documentation/lguest | |
parent | 9536c26b31ae34ba6371a1b8f406028e9756f913 (diff) |
lguest: document 32-bit and PAE requirements
Robert noted that we don't actually document that lguest is 32-bit only,
nor that PAE must be off (CONFIG_PAE is now prompted for if HIGHMEM is
set to "off).
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: lguest@ozlabs.org
Cc: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/lguest')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/lguest/lguest.txt | 11 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/lguest/lguest.txt b/Documentation/lguest/lguest.txt index 29510dc51510..28c747362f95 100644 --- a/Documentation/lguest/lguest.txt +++ b/Documentation/lguest/lguest.txt | |||
@@ -3,11 +3,11 @@ | |||
3 | /, /` - or, A Young Coder's Illustrated Hypervisor | 3 | /, /` - or, A Young Coder's Illustrated Hypervisor |
4 | \\"--\\ http://lguest.ozlabs.org | 4 | \\"--\\ http://lguest.ozlabs.org |
5 | 5 | ||
6 | Lguest is designed to be a minimal hypervisor for the Linux kernel, for | 6 | Lguest is designed to be a minimal 32-bit x86 hypervisor for the Linux kernel, |
7 | Linux developers and users to experiment with virtualization with the | 7 | for Linux developers and users to experiment with virtualization with the |
8 | minimum of complexity. Nonetheless, it should have sufficient | 8 | minimum of complexity. Nonetheless, it should have sufficient features to |
9 | features to make it useful for specific tasks, and, of course, you are | 9 | make it useful for specific tasks, and, of course, you are encouraged to fork |
10 | encouraged to fork and enhance it (see drivers/lguest/README). | 10 | and enhance it (see drivers/lguest/README). |
11 | 11 | ||
12 | Features: | 12 | Features: |
13 | 13 | ||
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ Running Lguest: | |||
37 | "Paravirtualized guest support" = Y | 37 | "Paravirtualized guest support" = Y |
38 | "Lguest guest support" = Y | 38 | "Lguest guest support" = Y |
39 | "High Memory Support" = off/4GB | 39 | "High Memory Support" = off/4GB |
40 | "PAE (Physical Address Extension) Support" = N | ||
40 | "Alignment value to which kernel should be aligned" = 0x100000 | 41 | "Alignment value to which kernel should be aligned" = 0x100000 |
41 | (CONFIG_PARAVIRT=y, CONFIG_LGUEST_GUEST=y, CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=n and | 42 | (CONFIG_PARAVIRT=y, CONFIG_LGUEST_GUEST=y, CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=n and |
42 | CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN=0x100000) | 43 | CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN=0x100000) |