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[Xen-users] Which variables should be set in hypervisor using first time

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Subject: [Xen-users] Which variables should be set in hypervisor using first time
From: Tapas Mishra <tapas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:04:50 +0530
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When I download the Xen 3.4.2 (hypervisor and tools) official source
distribution
http://www.xen.org/products/xen_source.html
the XEN
and did a make world
it asked me a lot of choices like the below ones
how should I choose and which ones to use I am not clear on this part
apart from selecting configuration for my PC
what should I use as modules If I am not wrong these are the same
choices which would come when some one compiles a kernel from jeremy
tree from soucre
is there any standard documentation available for reading this


choice[1-22]: 6
Generic x86 support (X86_GENERIC) [Y/n/?] y
Maximum number of CPUs (2-255) (NR_CPUS) [32] 32
Preemption Model
  1. No Forced Preemption (Server) (PREEMPT_NONE)
> 2. Voluntary Kernel Preemption (Desktop) (PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY)
choice[1-2]: 2
Preempt The Big Kernel Lock (PREEMPT_BKL) [Y/n/?] y
Toshiba Laptop support (TOSHIBA) [N/m/y/?] n
Dell laptop support (I8K) [N/m/y/?] n
/dev/cpu/microcode - Intel IA32 CPU microcode support (MICROCODE) [Y/n/m/?] y
/dev/cpu/*/msr - Model-specific register support (X86_MSR) [Y/n/m/?] y
/dev/cpu/*/cpuid - CPU information support (X86_CPUID) [M/n/y/?] m
*
* Firmware Drivers
*
BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive calls determine boot disk (EDD) [Y/n/m/?] y
BIOS update support for DELL systems via sysfs (DELL_RBU) [M/n/y/?] m
Dell Systems Management Base Driver (DCDBAS) [M/n/y/?] m
High Memory Support
  1. off (NOHIGHMEM)
  2. 4GB (HIGHMEM4G)
> 3. 64GB (HIGHMEM64G)
choice[1-3]: 3
Memory model
> 1. Flat Memory (FLATMEM_MANUAL)
choice[1]: 1
64 bit Memory and IO resources (EXPERIMENTAL) (RESOURCES_64BIT) [Y/?] y
Cache clean pages in transcendent memory (PRECACHE) [N/y/?] (NEW)

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Fajar A. Nugraha <fajar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Tapas Mishra <tapas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> root@tapas-laptop:/usr/src/xen-3.4.2# make -C docs
>> make: Entering directory `/usr/src/xen-3.4.2/docs'
>> latex src/user.tex >/dev/null
>>
>> is it normal or i am getting some error or the above step is not required
>
> You can skip it if you want.
>

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