From: Asias He <asias.hejun@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 07:45:27 +0000 (+0800)
Subject: kvm tools: Update README
X-Git-Tag: next-20110824~3^2~281
X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b978a0d6c21c2c41e684aeadbfedd4f5b9ff5079;p=karo-tx-linux.git

kvm tools: Update README

This patch updates:

- kernel configuration options
- kvm command line options
- authors

in README.

Signed-off-by: Asias He <asias.hejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
---

diff --git a/tools/kvm/README b/tools/kvm/README
index 189d97d7ed3f..a7f4a629fe8b 100644
--- a/tools/kvm/README
+++ b/tools/kvm/README
@@ -6,10 +6,6 @@ hobby, won't be big and professional like QEMU) with no BIOS
 dependencies and with only the minimal amount of legacy device
 emulation.
 
-Note that this is a development prototype for the time being: there's no
-networking support and no graphics support, amongst other missing
-essentials.
-
 It's great as a learning tool if you want to get your feet wet in
 virtualization land: it's only 5 KLOC of clean C code that can already
 boot a guest Linux image.
@@ -37,17 +33,31 @@ or alternatively, if you already have a kernel source tree:
   wget http://wiki.qemu.org/download/linux-0.2.img.bz2 && bunzip2
 linux-0.2.img.bz2
 
-4. Build a kernel with CONFIG_VIRTIO_BLK=y and
-CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE=y configuration options. Note: also make sure
-you have CONFIG_EXT2_FS or CONFIG_EXT4_FS if you use the above image.
+4. Build a kernel with
+
+  CONFIG_VIRTIO_BLK=y
+  CONFIG_VIRTIO_NET=y
+  CONFIG_VIRTIO_CONSOLE=y
+  CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE=y
+  CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_VIRTIO=y
+
+configuration options.
+Note: also make sure you have CONFIG_EXT2_FS or
+CONFIG_EXT4_FS if you use the above image.
 
 5. And finally, launch the hypervisor:
 
-  ./kvm --image=linux-0.2.img --kernel=../../arch/x86/boot/bzImage
+  ./kvm run --disk linux-0.2.img \
+	    --kernel ../../arch/x86/boot/bzImage \
+or
+
+  sudo ./kvm run --disk linux-0.2.img \
+		 --kernel ../../arch/x86/boot/bzImage \
+		 --network virtio
 
-The tool has been written by Pekka Enberg, Cyrill Gorcunov, and Asias
-He. Special thanks to Avi Kivity for his help on KVM internals and Ingo
-Molnar for all-around support and encouragement!
+The tool has been written by Pekka Enberg, Cyrill Gorcunov, Asias He,
+Sasha Levin and Prasad Joshi. Special thanks to Avi Kivity for his help
+on KVM internals and Ingo Molnar for all-around support and encouragement!
 
 See the following thread for original discussion for motivation of this
 project: