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diff --git a/system/xen/README b/system/xen/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..4dcd8aefc8 --- /dev/null +++ b/system/xen/README @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +The Xen hypervisor, a powerful open source industry standard for +virtualization, offers a powerful, efficient, and secure feature set for +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. + +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. + +This requires acpica. mbootpack is optional (see below). + +Since booting Xen kernel with LILO is not supported by default we have to +use GRUB; alternatively, use mbootpack to create a LILO compatible kernel. + +GRUB may be installed from Slackware's extra repository. The GRUB package +is not available from the Slackware x86_64 distribution, but the source and +a SlackBuild may be found in its extra/source repository. + +See README.SLACKWARE (which is also installed with the package docs) for +setup, configuration, and usage hints. |