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This patch updates:

- kernel configuration options
- kvm command line options
- authors

in README.

Signed-off-by: Asias He <asias.hejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
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2011-05-19 15:45:27 +08:00
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@@ -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
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!
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, 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: