# HG changeset patch
# User Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
# Date 1194342117 0
# Node ID e2445c775efcc6804742be3a2f9d976712c6295b
# Parent 468a30d74bd6ee7c13aa72f4f5626c5649141019
Users manual updates:
1) PAE as 32-bit Xen default
2) IA64 and Power are supported
3) AMD Virtualization is supported
4) Add console_timestamps boot param
Signed-off-by: Atsushi SAKAI <sakaia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
docs/src/user.tex | 24 ++++++++++++------------
1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff -r 468a30d74bd6 -r e2445c775efc docs/src/user.tex
--- a/docs/src/user.tex Tue Nov 06 09:40:44 2007 +0000
+++ b/docs/src/user.tex Tue Nov 06 09:41:57 2007 +0000
@@ -124,9 +124,9 @@ functionality, including:
\begin{itemize}
\item Virtual machines with performance close to native hardware.
\item Live migration of running virtual machines between physical hosts.
-\item Up to 32 virtual CPUs per guest virtual machine, with VCPU hotplug.
-\item x86/32, x86/32 with PAE, and x86/64 platform support.
-\item Intel Virtualization Technology (VT-x) for unmodified guest operating
systems (including Microsoft Windows).
+\item Up to 32\footnote{IA64 supports up to 64 virtual CPUs per guest virtual
machine} virtual CPUs per guest virtual machine, with VCPU hotplug.
+\item x86/32, x86/32 with PAE, x86/64, IA64 and Power platform support.
+\item Intel and AMD Virtualization Technology for unmodified guest operating
systems (including Microsoft Windows).
\item Excellent hardware support (supports almost all Linux device
drivers).
\end{itemize}
@@ -178,8 +178,7 @@ performance overhead, the combination of
performance overhead, the combination of Xen and VT or Xen and
Pacifica technology complement one another to offer superb performance
for para-virtualized guest operating systems and full support for
-unmodified guests running natively on the processor. Full support for
-VT and Pacifica chipsets will appear in early 2006.
+unmodified guests running natively on the processor.
Paravirtualized Xen support is available for increasingly many
operating systems: currently, mature Linux support is available and
@@ -193,12 +192,11 @@ newer processor (e.g.\ Pentium Pro, Cele
newer processor (e.g.\ Pentium Pro, Celeron, Pentium~II, Pentium~III,
Pentium~IV, Xeon, AMD~Athlon, AMD~Duron). Multiprocessor machines are
supported, and there is support for HyperThreading (SMT). In
-addition, ports to IA64 and Power architectures are in progress.
-
-The default 32-bit Xen supports up to 4GB of memory. However Xen 3.0
-adds support for Intel's Physical Addressing Extensions (PAE), which
-enable x86/32 machines to address up to 64 GB of physical memory. Xen
-3.0 also supports x86/64 platforms such as Intel EM64T and AMD Opteron
+addition, ports to IA64 and Power architectures are supported.
+
+The default 32-bit Xen supports for Intel's Physical Addressing Extensions
(PAE), which enable x86/32 machines to address up to 64 GB of physical memory.
+It also supports non-PAE 32-bit Xen up to 4GB of memory.
+Xen also supports x86/64 platforms such as Intel EM64T and AMD Opteron
which can currently address up to 1TB of physical memory.
Xen offloads most of the hardware support issues to the guest OS
@@ -3093,7 +3091,7 @@ files: \path{Config.mk} and \path{Makefi
The former allows the overall build target architecture to be
specified. You will typically not need to modify this unless
-you are cross-compiling or if you wish to build a PAE-enabled
+you are cross-compiling or if you wish to build a non-PAE
Xen system. Additional configuration options are documented
in the \path{Config.mk} file.
@@ -3225,6 +3223,8 @@ writing to the VGA console after domain
\item [ guest\_loglvl=$<$level$>/<$level$>$ ] As for loglvl, but
applies to messages relating to guests. Default is
`guest\_loglvl=none/warning'.
+\item [ console\_timestamps ]
+ Adds a timestamp prefix to each line of Xen console output.
\item [ nmi=xxx ]
Specify what to do with an NMI parity or I/O error. \\
`nmi=fatal': Xen prints a diagnostic and then hangs. \\
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