From: Wolfgang Mauerer <wolfgang.mauerer@xxxxxxxxxxx> A package without build instructions is like a kernel without a penguin. Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Mauerer <wolfgang.mauerer@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- README | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 README diff --git a/README b/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..40a72d3 --- /dev/null +++ b/README @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +Building the KVM kernel module is performed differently depending on whether +you are working from a clone of the git repository or from a source release. + +- To build from a release, simply use ./configure (possibly with any + arguments that are required for your setup, see ./configure --help) + and make. + +- Building from a cloned git repository requires a kernel tree with the main + kvm sources that is included as a submodule in the linux-2.6/ directory. By + default, the KVM development tree on git.kernel.org is used, but you can + change this setting in .gitmodules + + Before the kvm module can be built, the linux submodule must be initialised + and populated. The required sequence of commands is + + git submodule init + git submodule update + ./configure + make sync + make + + Notice that you can also specify an existing Linux tree for the + synchronisation stage by using + + make sync LINUX=/path/to/tree + -- 1.6.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
