Anthony PERARD
2012-Mar-26 14:07 UTC
[PATCH] doc, Remove qemu-upstream HowTo, and link to the wiki page.
Instead of having twice the same HowTo in tree and in the wiki, the one in tree will become a link to the wiki. Signed-off-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com> --- docs/misc/qemu-upstream_howto_use_it.markdown | 128 +------------------------ 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 123 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/misc/qemu-upstream_howto_use_it.markdown b/docs/misc/qemu-upstream_howto_use_it.markdown index c7441c4..455eac6 100644 --- a/docs/misc/qemu-upstream_howto_use_it.markdown +++ b/docs/misc/qemu-upstream_howto_use_it.markdown @@ -1,130 +1,12 @@ Using Upstream QEMU with Xen =========================== -Note ----- +If you want to build with the QEMU unstable tree, follow the wiki page: + [http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/QEMU_Upstream]() -All these steps will become unnecessary after the patches to integrate -SeaBIOS/QEMU into the Xen build system have been applied. - - -How to build it ---------------- - -### SeaBIOS - -The new device-model needs a different BIOS, SeaBIOS. Clone the repository from: - - - [git://git.qemu.org/seabios.git]() - - [http://git.qemu.org/git/seabios.git]() - -Put the `.config` file in the appendix at the root of `seabios.git` -and build SeaBIOS by typing `make`. - -In the xen-unstable source tree, add the file `.config` with -`SEABIOS_DIR = /path/to/seabios.git`. -To build hvmloader with SeaBIOS, you probably need to `make -C tools/firmware -clean` first and then `make tools`, to use the new SEABIOS_DIR parameter. - - -### QEMU - -Get QEMU upstream source from: - - - [git://xenbits.xensource.com/qemu-upstream-unstable.git]() - - [http://xenbits.xensource.com/git-http/qemu-upstream-unstable.git]() - -To configure QEMU upstream with support for Xen: - - ./configure --enable-xen --target-list=i386-softmmu --extra-cflags="-I$path_to_xen_source/tools/include -I$path_to_xen_source/tools/libxc -I$path_to_xen_source/tools/xenstore" --extra-ldflags="-L$path_to_xen_source/tools/libxc -L$path_to_xen_source/tools/xenstore" - -You can also use other several options such as `--disable-kvm`. - - -How to use QEMU upstream ------------------------- - -Only `xl` supports QEMU upstream. - -To actually use it, add or change this in your VM configuration file: +Otherwise, QEMU/SeaBIOS is now integrated into the build system, so you just +have to specify the device model version in an `xl` config file: device_model_version = ''qemu-xen'' - device_model_override = ''/path/to/qemu/i386-softmmu/qemu'' - -NB: In the `qemu-upstream` repository, the default binary name has been -renamed to `qemu-system-i386`. - - -Appendix ------- - -### `.config` file for SeaBIOS - # - # General Features - # - # CONFIG_COREBOOT is not set - CONFIG_XEN=y - CONFIG_THREADS=y - CONFIG_THREAD_OPTIONROMS=y - CONFIG_RELOCATE_INIT=y - CONFIG_BOOTMENU=y - CONFIG_BOOTMENU_WAIT=1000 - # CONFIG_BOOTSPLASH is not set - CONFIG_BOOTORDER=y - # - # Hardware support - # - CONFIG_ATA=y - CONFIG_ATA_DMA=y - CONFIG_ATA_PIO32=y - CONFIG_AHCI=y - CONFIG_VIRTIO_BLK=y - CONFIG_FLOPPY=y - CONFIG_PS2PORT=y - CONFIG_USB=y - CONFIG_USB_UHCI=y - CONFIG_USB_OHCI=y - CONFIG_USB_EHCI=y - CONFIG_USB_MSC=y - CONFIG_USB_HUB=y - CONFIG_USB_KEYBOARD=y - CONFIG_USB_MOUSE=y - CONFIG_SERIAL=y - CONFIG_LPT=y - # CONFIG_EXTRA_PCI_ROOTS is not set - # CONFIG_USE_SMM is not set - CONFIG_MTRR_INIT=y - # - # BIOS interfaces - # - CONFIG_DRIVES=y - # CONFIG_CDROM_BOOT is not set - CONFIG_PCIBIOS=y - CONFIG_APMBIOS=y - CONFIG_PNPBIOS=y - CONFIG_OPTIONROMS=y - # CONFIG_OPTIONROMS_DEPLOYED is not set - CONFIG_OPTIONROMS_CHECKSUM=y - CONFIG_PMM=y - CONFIG_BOOT=y - CONFIG_KEYBOARD=y - CONFIG_KBD_CALL_INT15_4F=y - CONFIG_MOUSE=y - CONFIG_S3_RESUME=y - # CONFIG_S3_RESUME_VGA_INIT is not set - # CONFIG_DISABLE_A20 is not set - # - # BIOS Tables - # - CONFIG_PIRTABLE=y - CONFIG_MPTABLE=y - CONFIG_SMBIOS=y - CONFIG_ACPI=y - # - # Debugging - # - CONFIG_DEBUG_LEVEL=3 - CONFIG_DEBUG_SERIAL=y - CONFIG_DEBUG_SERIAL_PORT=0x3f8 - # CONFIG_SCREEN_AND_DEBUG is not set +The version of QEMU used in the build system is the last release of QEMU. -- tg: (5bc03ac..) doc/qemu-upstream (depends on: master)
Ian Jackson
2012-Apr-02 16:45 UTC
Re: [PATCH] doc, Remove qemu-upstream HowTo, and link to the wiki page.
Anthony PERARD writes ("[Xen-devel] [PATCH] doc, Remove qemu-upstream HowTo, and link to the wiki page."):> Instead of having twice the same HowTo in tree and in the wiki, the > one in tree will become a link to the wiki.Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com> I fixed up the summary line to start with "docs: " as docs patches should. Thanks, Ian.