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authorMario Preksavec <mario@slackware.hr>2015-03-15 23:10:28 +0100
committerWilly Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>2015-03-22 15:33:25 +0700
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system/xen: Updated for version 4.5.0 and more.
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@@ -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.