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Commit 38cfe968 authored by Rusty Russell's avatar Rusty Russell
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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: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: lguest@ozlabs.org
Cc: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
parent 9536c26b

Documentation/lguest/lguest.txt

+6 −5
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@@ -3,11 +3,11 @@ 
 /,    /`      - or, A Young Coder's Illustrated Hypervisor

 /,    /`      - or, A Young Coder's Illustrated Hypervisor

 \\"--\\    http://lguest.ozlabs.org

 \\"--\\    http://lguest.ozlabs.org





Lguest is designed to be a minimal hypervisor for the Linux kernel, for

Lguest is designed to be a minimal 32-bit x86 hypervisor for the Linux kernel,

Linux developers and users to experiment with virtualization with the

for Linux developers and users to experiment with virtualization with the

minimum of complexity.  Nonetheless, it should have sufficient

minimum of complexity.  Nonetheless, it should have sufficient features to

features to make it useful for specific tasks, and, of course, you are

make it useful for specific tasks, and, of course, you are encouraged to fork

encouraged to fork and enhance it (see drivers/lguest/README).

and enhance it (see drivers/lguest/README).





Features:

Features:
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ Running Lguest: 
     "Paravirtualized guest support" = Y

     "Paravirtualized guest support" = Y

        "Lguest guest support" = Y

        "Lguest guest support" = Y

     "High Memory Support" = off/4GB

     "High Memory Support" = off/4GB

     "PAE (Physical Address Extension) Support" = N

     "Alignment value to which kernel should be aligned" = 0x100000

     "Alignment value to which kernel should be aligned" = 0x100000

        (CONFIG_PARAVIRT=y, CONFIG_LGUEST_GUEST=y, CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=n and

        (CONFIG_PARAVIRT=y, CONFIG_LGUEST_GUEST=y, CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=n and

         CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN=0x100000)

         CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN=0x100000)