/, /` - or, A Young Coder's Illustrated Hypervisor
\\"--\\ http://lguest.ozlabs.org
-Lguest is designed to be a minimal hypervisor for the Linux kernel, for
-Linux developers and users to experiment with virtualization with the
-minimum of complexity. Nonetheless, it should have sufficient
-features to make it useful for specific tasks, and, of course, you are
-encouraged to fork and enhance it (see drivers/lguest/README).
+Lguest is designed to be a minimal 32-bit x86 hypervisor for the Linux kernel,
+for Linux developers and users to experiment with virtualization with the
+minimum of complexity. Nonetheless, it should have sufficient features to
+make it useful for specific tasks, and, of course, you are encouraged to fork
+and enhance it (see drivers/lguest/README).
Features:
CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN=0x100000)
"Device Drivers":
+ "Block devices"
+ "Virtio block driver (EXPERIMENTAL)" = M/Y
"Network device support"
"Universal TUN/TAP device driver support" = M/Y
- (CONFIG_TUN=m)
- "Virtualization"
- "Linux hypervisor example code" = M/Y
- (CONFIG_LGUEST=m)
+ "Virtio network driver (EXPERIMENTAL)" = M/Y
+ (CONFIG_VIRTIO_BLK=m, CONFIG_VIRTIO_NET=m and CONFIG_TUN=m)
+
+ "Virtualization"
+ "Linux hypervisor example code" = M/Y
+ (CONFIG_LGUEST=m)
- A tool called "lguest" is available in this directory: type "make"
to build it. If you didn't build your kernel in-tree, use "make