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authorkaf24@firebug.cl.cam.ac.uk <kaf24@firebug.cl.cam.ac.uk>2006-05-16 13:46:57 +0100
committerkaf24@firebug.cl.cam.ac.uk <kaf24@firebug.cl.cam.ac.uk>2006-05-16 13:46:57 +0100
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Our 10,000th changeset! (Clean up trailing whitespace in README file :-)
Signed-off-by: Keir Fraser <keir@xensource.com>
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@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
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- __ __ _____ ___
- \ \/ /___ _ __ |___ / / _ \
+ __ __ _____ ___
+ \ \/ /___ _ __ |___ / / _ \
\ // _ \ '_ \ |_ \| | | |
/ \ __/ | | | ___) | |_| |
- /_/\_\___|_| |_| |____(_)___/
+ /_/\_\___|_| |_| |____(_)___/
################################
@@ -66,14 +66,14 @@ performed with root privileges.]
The linux command line takes all the usual options, such as
root=<root-dev> to specify your usual root partition (e.g.,
- /dev/hda1).
+ /dev/hda1).
The Xen command line takes a number of optional arguments described
in the manual. The most common is 'dom0_mem=xxxM' which sets the
amount of memory to allocate for use by your initial virtual
machine (known as domain 0). Note that Xen itself reserves about
32MB memory for internal use, which is not available for allocation
- to virtual machines.
+ to virtual machines.
3. Reboot your system and select the "Xen 3.0 / XenLinux 2.6" menu
option. After booting Xen, Linux will start and your initialisation
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ First, there are a number of prerequisites for building a Xen source
release. Make sure you have all the following installed, either by
visiting the project webpage or installing a pre-built package
provided by your Linux distributor:
- * GCC (preferably v3.2.x or v3.3.x; older versions are unsupported)
+ * GCC (preferably v3.2.x or v3.3.x; older versions are unsupported)
* GNU Make
* GNU Binutils
* Development install of zlib (e.g., zlib-dev)
@@ -122,19 +122,19 @@ On Linux:
# make world
# make install
- This will create and install onto the local machine. It will build
+ This will create and install onto the local machine. It will build
the xen binary (xen.gz), and a linux kernel and modules that can be
used in both dom0 and an unprivileged guest kernel (vmlinuz-2.6.x-xen),
the tools and the documentation.
- You can override the destination for make install by setting DESTDIR
+ You can override the destination for make install by setting DESTDIR
to some value.
- The make command line defaults to building the kernel vmlinuz-2.6.x-xen.
- You can override this default by specifying KERNELS=kernelname. For
- example, you can make two kernels - linux-2.6-xen0
- and linux-2.6-xenU - which are smaller builds containing only selected
- modules, intended primarily for developers that don't like to wait
+ The make command line defaults to building the kernel vmlinuz-2.6.x-xen.
+ You can override this default by specifying KERNELS=kernelname. For
+ example, you can make two kernels - linux-2.6-xen0
+ and linux-2.6-xenU - which are smaller builds containing only selected
+ modules, intended primarily for developers that don't like to wait
for a full -xen kernel to build. The -xenU kernel is particularly small,
as it does not contain any physical device drivers, and hence is
only useful for guest domains.
@@ -153,15 +153,15 @@ On Linux:
# make dist
This will build and install xen, kernels, tools, and
- docs into the local dist/ directory.
+ docs into the local dist/ directory.
- You can override the destination for make install by setting DISTDIR
+ You can override the destination for make install by setting DISTDIR
to some value.
- make install and make dist differ in that make install does the
- right things for your local machine (installing the appropriate
- version of hotplug or udev scripts, for example), but make dist
- includes all versions of those scripts, so that you can copy the dist
+ make install and make dist differ in that make install does the
+ right things for your local machine (installing the appropriate
+ version of hotplug or udev scripts, for example), but make dist
+ includes all versions of those scripts, so that you can copy the dist
directory to another machine and install from that distribution.
5. To rebuild a kernel with a modified config:
@@ -171,6 +171,6 @@ On Linux:
# make linux-2.6-xen-install
Depending on your config, you may need to use 'mkinitrd' to create
- an initial ram disk, just like a native system e.g.
+ an initial ram disk, just like a native system e.g.
# depmod 2.6.16-xen
# mkinitrd -v -f --with=aacraid --with=sd_mod --with=scsi_mod initrd-2.6.16-xen.img 2.6.16-xen