# HG changeset patch
# User Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxx>
# Date 1260523029 0
# Node ID b928797213ac6066e8e2a11326857ba718b18a59
# Parent 90a6dd880ddfb45f2e468f68c1e75c9b19ebca4a
docs: Fixes for README
Signed-off-by: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
README | 71 ++++++++++-------------------------------------------------------
1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 59 deletions(-)
diff -r 90a6dd880ddf -r b928797213ac README
--- a/README Fri Dec 11 09:07:57 2009 +0000
+++ b/README Fri Dec 11 09:17:09 2009 +0000
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
#################################
- __ __ _____ _ _
- \ \/ /___ _ __ |___ /| || |
- \ // _ \ '_ \ |_ \| || |_
- / \ __/ | | | ___) |__ _|
- /_/\_\___|_| |_| |____(_) |_|
-
+ __ __ _ _ ___
+ \ \/ /___ _ __ | || | / _ \
+ \ // _ \ '_ \ | || |_| | | |
+ / \ __/ | | | |__ _| |_| |
+ /_/\_\___|_| |_| |_|(_)___/
+
#################################
http://www.xen.org/
@@ -17,14 +17,12 @@ Laboratory, as part of the UK-EPSRC fund
Laboratory, as part of the UK-EPSRC funded XenoServers project. Xen
is freely-distributable Open Source software, released under the GNU
GPL. Since its initial public release, Xen has grown a large
-development community, spearheaded by XenSource Inc, a company created
-by the original Xen development team to build enterprise products
-around Xen.
+development community, spearheaded by xen.org (http://www.xen.org).
-The 3.4 release offers excellent performance, hardware support and
+The 4.0 release offers excellent performance, hardware support and
enterprise-grade features such as x86_32-PAE, x86_64, SMP guests and
-live relocation of VMs. Ports to Linux 2.6, Linux 2.4, NetBSD, FreeBSD
-and Solaris are available from the community.
+live relocation of VMs. Ports to Linux, NetBSD, FreeBSD and Solaris
+are available from the community.
This file contains some quick-start instructions to install Xen on
your system. For full documentation, see the Xen User Manual. If this
@@ -33,53 +31,8 @@ If you have a source release, then 'make
If you have a source release, then 'make -C docs' will build the
manual at docs/pdf/user.pdf.
-Quick-Start Guide - Pre-Built Binary Release
-============================================
-
-[NB. Unless noted otherwise, all the following steps should be
-performed with root privileges.]
-
-1. Install the binary distribution onto your filesystem:
-
- # sh ./install.sh
-
- Among other things, this will install Xen and Xen-ready Linux
- kernel files in /boot, kernel modules and Python packages in /lib,
- and various control tools in standard 'bin' directories.
-
-2. Configure your bootloader to boot Xen and an initial Linux virtual
- machine. Note that Xen currently only works with GRUB and pxelinux
- derived boot loaders: less common alternatives such as LILO are
- *not* supported. You can most likely find your GRUB menu file at
- /boot/grub/menu.lst: edit this file to include an entry like the
- following:
-
- title Xen 3.4 / XenLinux 2.6
- kernel /boot/xen-3.4.gz console=vga
- module /boot/vmlinuz-2.6-xen root=<root-dev> ro console=tty0
- module /boot/initrd-2.6-xen.img
-
- NB: Not all kernel configs need an initial ram disk (initrd), but
- if you do specify one you'll need to use the 'module' grub directive
- rather than 'initrd'.
-
- The linux command line takes all the usual options, such as
- root=<root-dev> to specify your usual root partition (e.g.,
- /dev/hda1).
-
- The Xen command line takes a number of optional arguments described
- in the manual. The most common is 'dom0_mem=xxxM' which sets the
- amount of memory to allocate for use by your initial virtual
- machine (known as domain 0). Note that Xen itself reserves about
- 32MB memory for internal use, which is not available for allocation
- to virtual machines.
-
-3. Reboot your system and select the "Xen 3.4 / XenLinux 2.6" menu
- option. After booting Xen, Linux will start and your initialisation
- scripts should execute in the usual way.
-
-Quick-Start Guide - Source Release
-==================================
+Quick-Start Guide
+=================
First, there are a number of prerequisites for building a Xen source
release. Make sure you have all the following installed, either by
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