diff options
| author | Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> | 2009-04-20 09:14:02 +0400 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> | 2009-04-19 17:44:02 +0400 |
| commit | 38cfe968040250b89c3554a17219a9fda45b9665 (patch) | |
| tree | 9a4bcf5f2194ceed0a3f17eb95fb13cbe0b3f3e9 /Documentation/lguest | |
| parent | 9536c26b31ae34ba6371a1b8f406028e9756f913 (diff) | |
| download | linux-38cfe968040250b89c3554a17219a9fda45b9665.tar.xz | |
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 @@ /, /` - or, A Young Coder's Illustrated Hypervisor \\"--\\ http://lguest.ozlabs.org -Lguest is designed to be a minimal hypervisor for the Linux kernel, for -Linux developers and users to experiment with virtualization with the -minimum of complexity. Nonetheless, it should have sufficient -features to make it useful for specific tasks, and, of course, you are -encouraged to fork and enhance it (see drivers/lguest/README). +Lguest is designed to be a minimal 32-bit x86 hypervisor for the Linux kernel, +for Linux developers and users to experiment with virtualization with the +minimum of complexity. Nonetheless, it should have sufficient features to +make it useful for specific tasks, and, of course, you are encouraged to fork +and enhance it (see drivers/lguest/README). Features: @@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ Running Lguest: "Paravirtualized guest support" = Y "Lguest guest support" = Y "High Memory Support" = off/4GB + "PAE (Physical Address Extension) Support" = N "Alignment value to which kernel should be aligned" = 0x100000 (CONFIG_PARAVIRT=y, CONFIG_LGUEST_GUEST=y, CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=n and CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN=0x100000) |