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author | Mario Preksavec <mario@slackware.hr> | 2015-03-15 23:10:28 +0100 |
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committer | Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org> | 2015-03-22 15:33:25 +0700 |
commit | b7b30fc19a3678820cf38eeffa8e5aac37149594 (patch) | |
tree | c78dbc6328bca1c2976ebf548bfc04eea9d2a623 /system/xen/README | |
parent | 1e301e41ee5c82fda47438d878b48c3af4691985 (diff) |
system/xen: Updated for version 4.5.0 and more.
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1 files changed, 12 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/system/xen/README b/system/xen/README index dfd289205f96c..4ae5848f40530 100644 --- a/system/xen/README +++ b/system/xen/README @@ -4,15 +4,22 @@ virtualization of x86, x86_64, IA64, ARM, and other CPU architectures. It supports a wide range of guest operating systems including Windows, Linux, Solaris, and various versions of the BSD operating systems. +mbootpack is an optional dependency, it creates LILO compatible kernel. +libssh2 is also optional dependency, it can be enabled with: LIBSSH2=yes +ocaml-findlib is yet another optional dependency, it builds oxenstored +Additionally, BlueZ support can be enabled with: BLUEZ=yes and ocaml + In order to run Xen, you will need to install and boot from a Xen dom0 kernel. Check README.dom0 (in docs/dom0) for more information on how to do -that. +that. Additionally, README.domU has information about unpriviledged guests. + +README.openvswitch-extended explains a bit more advanced aproach to Open +vSwitch setup, more adventureous folk can use: -mbootpack is an optional dependency. Since booting a Xen kernel with LILO -is not supported by default we have to use GRUB; alternatively, you can use -mbootpack to create a LILO compatible kernel. + INSTALL_OPENVSWITCH_EXTENDED=yes ./xen.SlackBuild -The Xen hypervisor no longer builds on x86 32 bit operating systems. +This will install vif script and the config file under /etc/xen, helper +script will be stripped of its .sh suffix and installed into /usr/bin See README.SLACKWARE (which is also installed with the package docs) for setup, configuration, and usage hints. |