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author | Keir Fraser <keir@xensource.com> | 2007-11-06 09:41:57 +0000 |
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committer | Keir Fraser <keir@xensource.com> | 2007-11-06 09:41:57 +0000 |
commit | d0206a01a8ea1a31139e3c51d86c40e6da8162de (patch) | |
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Users manual updates:
1) PAE as 32-bit Xen default
2) IA64 and Power are supported
3) AMD Virtualization is supported
4) Add console_timestamps boot param
Signed-off-by: Atsushi SAKAI <sakaia@jp.fujitsu.com>
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1 files changed, 11 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/docs/src/user.tex b/docs/src/user.tex index f4e23b8482..fd64a94ec7 100644 --- a/docs/src/user.tex +++ b/docs/src/user.tex @@ -124,9 +124,9 @@ functionality, including: \begin{itemize} \item Virtual machines with performance close to native hardware. \item Live migration of running virtual machines between physical hosts. -\item Up to 32 virtual CPUs per guest virtual machine, with VCPU hotplug. -\item x86/32, x86/32 with PAE, and x86/64 platform support. -\item Intel Virtualization Technology (VT-x) for unmodified guest operating systems (including Microsoft Windows). +\item Up to 32\footnote{IA64 supports up to 64 virtual CPUs per guest virtual machine} virtual CPUs per guest virtual machine, with VCPU hotplug. +\item x86/32, x86/32 with PAE, x86/64, IA64 and Power platform support. +\item Intel and AMD Virtualization Technology for unmodified guest operating systems (including Microsoft Windows). \item Excellent hardware support (supports almost all Linux device drivers). \end{itemize} @@ -178,8 +178,7 @@ traditional full virtualization hypervisors, which suffer a tremendous performance overhead, the combination of Xen and VT or Xen and Pacifica technology complement one another to offer superb performance for para-virtualized guest operating systems and full support for -unmodified guests running natively on the processor. Full support for -VT and Pacifica chipsets will appear in early 2006. +unmodified guests running natively on the processor. Paravirtualized Xen support is available for increasingly many operating systems: currently, mature Linux support is available and @@ -193,12 +192,11 @@ Xen currently runs on the x86 architecture, requiring a ``P6'' or newer processor (e.g.\ Pentium Pro, Celeron, Pentium~II, Pentium~III, Pentium~IV, Xeon, AMD~Athlon, AMD~Duron). Multiprocessor machines are supported, and there is support for HyperThreading (SMT). In -addition, ports to IA64 and Power architectures are in progress. +addition, ports to IA64 and Power architectures are supported. -The default 32-bit Xen supports up to 4GB of memory. However Xen 3.0 -adds support for Intel's Physical Addressing Extensions (PAE), which -enable x86/32 machines to address up to 64 GB of physical memory. Xen -3.0 also supports x86/64 platforms such as Intel EM64T and AMD Opteron +The default 32-bit Xen supports for Intel's Physical Addressing Extensions (PAE), which enable x86/32 machines to address up to 64 GB of physical memory. +It also supports non-PAE 32-bit Xen up to 4GB of memory. +Xen also supports x86/64 platforms such as Intel EM64T and AMD Opteron which can currently address up to 1TB of physical memory. Xen offloads most of the hardware support issues to the guest OS @@ -3093,7 +3091,7 @@ files: \path{Config.mk} and \path{Makefile}. The former allows the overall build target architecture to be specified. You will typically not need to modify this unless -you are cross-compiling or if you wish to build a PAE-enabled +you are cross-compiling or if you wish to build a non-PAE Xen system. Additional configuration options are documented in the \path{Config.mk} file. @@ -3225,6 +3223,8 @@ writing to the VGA console after domain 0 starts booting (e.g., `vga=text-80x50, \item [ guest\_loglvl=$<$level$>/<$level$>$ ] As for loglvl, but applies to messages relating to guests. Default is `guest\_loglvl=none/warning'. +\item [ console\_timestamps ] + Adds a timestamp prefix to each line of Xen console output. \item [ nmi=xxx ] Specify what to do with an NMI parity or I/O error. \\ `nmi=fatal': Xen prints a diagnostic and then hangs. \\ |