From 79669c1728d9ce1fd6d697aa6ae0ff113d9c16db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "kfraser@localhost.localdomain" Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 16:44:04 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Fix the README to match Xen 3.1 From: Ryan Riley Signed-off-by: Keir Fraser --- README | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++--------------- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index 10ef237bc9..53cb8b4b7d 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,11 +1,11 @@ -################################ - __ __ _____ ___ - \ \/ /___ _ __ |___ / / _ \ - \ // _ \ '_ \ |_ \| | | | - / \ __/ | | | ___) | |_| | - /_/\_\___|_| |_| |____(_)___/ +############################# + __ __ _____ _ + \ \/ /___ _ __ |___ / / | + \ // _ \ '_ \ |_ \ | | + / \ __/ | | | ___) || | + /_/\_\___|_| |_| |____(_)_| -################################ +############################# http://www.xensource.com/xen/about.html @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ development community, spearheaded by XenSource Inc, a company created by the original Xen development team to build enterprise products around Xen. -The 3.0 release offers excellent performance, hardware support and +The 3.1 release offers excellent performance, hardware support and enterprise-grade features such as x86_32-PAE, x86_64, SMP guests and live relocation of VMs. This install tree contains source for a Linux 2.6 guest; ports to Linux 2.4, NetBSD, FreeBSD and Solaris are @@ -55,8 +55,8 @@ performed with root privileges.] /boot/grub/menu.lst: edit this file to include an entry like the following: - title Xen 3.0 / XenLinux 2.6 - kernel /boot/xen-3.0.gz console=vga + title Xen 3.1 / XenLinux 2.6 + kernel /boot/xen-3.1.gz console=vga module /boot/vmlinuz-2.6-xen root= ro console=tty0 module /boot/initrd-2.6-xen.img @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ performed with root privileges.] 32MB memory for internal use, which is not available for allocation to virtual machines. -3. Reboot your system and select the "Xen 3.0 / XenLinux 2.6" menu +3. Reboot your system and select the "Xen 3.1 / XenLinux 2.6" menu option. After booting Xen, Linux will start and your initialisation scripts should execute in the usual way. @@ -103,8 +103,8 @@ performed with root privileges.] 1. Download and untar the source tarball file. This will be a file named xen-unstable-src.tgz, or xen-$version-src.tgz. - You can also pull the current version from the SCMS - that is being used (Bitkeeper, scheduled to change shortly). + You can also pull the current version from the mercurial + repository at http://xenbits.xensource.com/ # tar xzf xen-unstable-src.tgz @@ -173,8 +173,13 @@ On Linux: Depending on your config, you may need to use 'mkinitrd' to create an initial ram disk, just like a native system e.g. - # depmod 2.6.16-xen - # mkinitrd -v -f --with=aacraid --with=sd_mod --with=scsi_mod initrd-2.6.16-xen.img 2.6.16-xen + # depmod 2.6.18-xen + # mkinitrd -v -f --with=aacraid --with=sd_mod --with=scsi_mod initrd-2.6.18-xen.img 2.6.18-xen + + Other systems may requires the use of 'mkinitramfs' to create the + ram disk. + # depmod 2.6.18-xen + # mkinitramfs -o initrd-2.6.18-xen.img 2.6.18-xen Python Runtime Libraries -- 2.30.2