From 88de3d14a6f457b360e808ec59ff722215b494ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "smh22@firebug.cl.cam.ac.uk" Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 08:54:49 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] bitkeeper revision 1.1425 (4289b159Cmh6NHAqKpwaWnNgVs6sWA) user.tex: note differences between 2.x and 3.x --- docs/src/user.tex | 19 ++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/src/user.tex b/docs/src/user.tex index 5037ac73af..594ef59135 100644 --- a/docs/src/user.tex +++ b/docs/src/user.tex @@ -483,15 +483,15 @@ distribution. The entry should look something like the following: {\small \begin{verbatim} -title Xen 2.0 / XenLinux 2.6.9 - kernel /boot/xen.gz dom0_mem=128M - module /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-xen0 root=/dev/sda4 ro console=tty0 +title Xen 2.0 / XenLinux 2.6.11 + kernel /boot/xen.gz dom0_mem=131072 + module /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.11-xen0 root=/dev/sda4 ro console=tty0 \end{verbatim} } The kernel line tells GRUB where to find Xen itself and what boot parameters should be passed to it (in this case, setting domain 0's -memory allocation and the settings for the serial port). For more +memory allocation in kilobytes and the settings for the serial port). For more details on the various Xen boot parameters see Section~\ref{s:xboot}. The module line of the configuration describes the location of the @@ -524,7 +524,7 @@ have problems. \subsection{Serial Console (optional)} -%% kernel /boot/xen.gz dom0_mem=128M com1=115200,8n1 +%% kernel /boot/xen.gz dom0_mem=131072 com1=115200,8n1 %% module /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-xen0 root=/dev/sda4 ro @@ -534,7 +534,7 @@ with: \begin{quote} {\small \begin{verbatim} - kernel /boot/xen.gz dom0_mem=128M com1=115200,8n1 + kernel /boot/xen.gz dom0_mem=131072 com1=115200,8n1 \end{verbatim}} \end{quote} @@ -1754,10 +1754,11 @@ editing \path{grub.conf}. default unit, if no suffix is specified, is bytes. \item [dom0\_mem=xxx ] - Set the amount of memory to be allocated to domain0. This parameter + Set the amount of memory to be allocated to domain0. In Xen 3.x the parameter may be specified with a B, K, M or G suffix, representing bytes, - kilobytes, megabytes and gigabytes respectively. The - default unit, if no suffix is specified, is kilobytes. + kilobytes, megabytes and gigabytes respectively; if no suffix is specified, + the parameter defaults to kilobytes. In previous versions of Xen, suffixes + were not supported and the value is always interpreted as kilobytes. \item [tbuf\_size=xxx ] Set the size of the per-cpu trace buffers, in pages -- 2.30.2