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.
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