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| author | kaf24@freefall.cl.cam.ac.uk <kaf24@freefall.cl.cam.ac.uk> | 2004-10-28 16:18:49 +0000 |
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| committer | kaf24@freefall.cl.cam.ac.uk <kaf24@freefall.cl.cam.ac.uk> | 2004-10-28 16:18:49 +0000 |
| commit | 5368e24a201c3d5e60d1b380c27df16779aefd27 (patch) | |
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bitkeeper revision 1.1159.138.1 (41811be9-M5W9ujjnrgAr5BvIUxzIQ)
Doc fixes. Definitely more still to do.
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@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ __ __ ____ ___ ############################### University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory -28 Aug 2004 +28 October 2004 http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/netos/xen @@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ more normal to use some smaller number, perhaps 10-20. A common question is "how many virtual machines can I run on hardware xyz?". The answer is very application dependent, but the rule of thumb is that you should expect to be able to run the same workload under -multiple guest OSes that you could run under a single Linux instance, +multiple guest OSs that you could run under a single Linux instance, with an additional overhead of a few MB per OS instance. One key feature in this new release of Xen is `live migration'. This @@ -111,7 +111,6 @@ node down for maintenance, or to load balance a large number of virtual machines across a cluster. - Hardware support ================ @@ -132,9 +131,8 @@ run on Opterons in 32-bit mode just fine). Xen can currently use up to 4GB of memory. It's possible for x86 machines to address more than that (64GB), but it requires using a different page table format (3-level rather than 2-level) that we -currently don't support. Adding 3-level PAE support wouldn't be -difficult, but we'd also need to add support to all the guest -OSs. Volunteers welcome! +don't currently support, as we are concentrating on an x86_64 port +that will more easily support large-memory configurations. In contrast to previous Xen versions, in Xen 2.0 device drivers run within a privileged guest OS rather than within Xen itself. This means @@ -204,6 +202,7 @@ If you don't want to use bitkeeper to download the source, you can download prebuilt binaries and src tar balls from the project downloads page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/netos/xen/downloads/ + Using the domain control tools ============================== @@ -212,8 +211,6 @@ daemon: "xend start". The primary tool for starting and controlling domains is "xm". "xm help <cmd>" will tell you how to use it. -README.CD contains some example invocations. - -Further documentation is in docs/ (e.g., docs/Xen-HOWTO), and also in - - +Further documentation is in the docs/ directory. Postscript, PDF and +HTML versions of the user manual can be found in the ps/, pdf/ and +html/ subdirectories. |