Commit-ID: b978a0d6c21c2c41e684aeadbfedd4f5b9ff5079 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/b978a0d6c21c2c41e684aeadbfedd4f5b9ff5079 Author: Asias He <asias.hejun@xxxxxxxxx> AuthorDate: Thu, 19 May 2011 15:45:27 +0800 Committer: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx> CommitDate: Fri, 20 May 2011 16:25:23 +0300 kvm tools: Update README This patch updates: - kernel configuration options - kvm command line options - authors in README. Signed-off-by: Asias He <asias.hejun@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/kvm/README | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++----------- 1 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/kvm/README b/tools/kvm/README index 189d97d..a7f4a62 100644 --- a/tools/kvm/README +++ b/tools/kvm/README @@ -6,10 +6,6 @@ hobby, won't be big and professional like QEMU) with no BIOS dependencies and with only the minimal amount of legacy device emulation. -Note that this is a development prototype for the time being: there's no -networking support and no graphics support, amongst other missing -essentials. - It's great as a learning tool if you want to get your feet wet in virtualization land: it's only 5 KLOC of clean C code that can already boot a guest Linux image. @@ -37,17 +33,31 @@ or alternatively, if you already have a kernel source tree: wget http://wiki.qemu.org/download/linux-0.2.img.bz2 && bunzip2 linux-0.2.img.bz2 -4. Build a kernel with CONFIG_VIRTIO_BLK=y and -CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE=y configuration options. Note: also make sure -you have CONFIG_EXT2_FS or CONFIG_EXT4_FS if you use the above image. +4. Build a kernel with + + CONFIG_VIRTIO_BLK=y + CONFIG_VIRTIO_NET=y + CONFIG_VIRTIO_CONSOLE=y + CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE=y + CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_VIRTIO=y + +configuration options. +Note: also make sure you have CONFIG_EXT2_FS or +CONFIG_EXT4_FS if you use the above image. 5. And finally, launch the hypervisor: - ./kvm --image=linux-0.2.img --kernel=../../arch/x86/boot/bzImage + ./kvm run --disk linux-0.2.img \ + --kernel ../../arch/x86/boot/bzImage \ +or + + sudo ./kvm run --disk linux-0.2.img \ + --kernel ../../arch/x86/boot/bzImage \ + --network virtio -The tool has been written by Pekka Enberg, Cyrill Gorcunov, and Asias -He. Special thanks to Avi Kivity for his help on KVM internals and Ingo -Molnar for all-around support and encouragement! +The tool has been written by Pekka Enberg, Cyrill Gorcunov, Asias He, +Sasha Levin and Prasad Joshi. Special thanks to Avi Kivity for his help +on KVM internals and Ingo Molnar for all-around support and encouragement! See the following thread for original discussion for motivation of this project: -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tip-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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