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Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 10:43:09 +1000 From: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au> To: Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com> Cc: lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, virtualization <virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org> Subject: Re: [RELEASE] Lguest for 2.6.21 On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 10:13 +1000, Rusty Russell wrote: > On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 11:02 -0500, Matt Mackall wrote: > > On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 12:43:48AM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote: > > > http://lguest.ozlabs.org/lguest-2.6.21-254.patch.gz > > > > > > See Documentation/lguest/lguest.txt for how to run, > > > drivers/lguest/README for the draft code documentation journey. > > > > Your lguest readme is quite lacking in the area of how to configure a > > guest kernel as opposed to the host kernel. More hand-holding, please. > > Hi Matt! > > Ah, that's because they are the same kernel. Turning on CONFIG_LGUEST > builds-in the parts needed to be a guest as well. > > Thanks for pointing out that weakness. I will modify lguest.txt to make > that clear. Something like this: diff -r 940ec1c6ac5a Documentation/lguest/lguest.txt --- a/Documentation/lguest/lguest.txt Thu May 03 23:00:19 2007 +1000 +++ b/Documentation/lguest/lguest.txt Fri May 04 10:17:23 2007 +1000 @@ -23,7 +23,10 @@ Developer features: Running Lguest: -- You will need to configure your kernel with the following options: +- Lguest runs the same kernel as guest and host. You can configure + them differently, but usually it's easiest not to. + + You will need to configure your kernel with the following options: CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=n ("High Memory Support" "64GB")[1] CONFIG_TUN=y/m ("Universal TUN/TAP device driver support") Cheers, Rusty. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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