[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] [Xen-changelog] Added information for running xm-test in HVM / VMX mode.
# HG changeset patch # User stekloff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # Node ID fd1488b1132c17f4680fc6a51a3c2c17113c77fc # Parent 3f3d53c3b327b046ad723c6b08401a80ac6ade19 Added information for running xm-test in HVM / VMX mode. Signed-off-by: Daniel Stekloff <dsteklof@xxxxxxxxxx> diff -r 3f3d53c3b327 -r fd1488b1132c tools/xm-test/README --- a/tools/xm-test/README Fri Dec 16 11:46:58 2005 +++ b/tools/xm-test/README Fri Dec 16 11:50:27 2005 @@ -54,6 +54,26 @@ you should not attempt to use a ramdisk from a previous minor version of xm-test (i.e., don't use a ramdisk from 0.4.0 with 0.5.0. 0.5.0 should work for 0.5.3 though) + +If you'd like to build and run this with hardware virtual machine assist +(HVM) support to test fully virtualized disk images on VMX hardware, +please add the --enable-vmx-support option to configure: + + # ./autogen + # ./configure --enable-vmx-support + # make + +The ramdisk/bin/create_disk_image script, which builds the full virt +disk.img, requires Lilo 22.7+ to be installed on the system. Lilo is +used to install the bootloader on the disk.img. + +If HVM / VMX support is enabled, the ramdisk/bin/create_disk_image script +will be run to create a full virt disk.img in the ramdisk directory. The +script, by default, will look in /boot for the first non-Xen kernel it +runs across. If you wish to use a different kernel or the script fails +to find a kernel, please run the script manually to make a disk.img +using the -k option. Xm-test will look for disk.img in the ramdisk +directory when run by default. Running _______________________________________________ Xen-changelog mailing list Xen-changelog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-changelog
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