menu "Target Configuration"
+choice
+ prompt "Target Host OS"
+ default KITTEN
+
config KITTEN
- bool "Set defaults needed for the Kitten OS"
- default y
+ bool "Kitten OS"
+ select BUILT_IN_STDLIB
+ select BUILT_IN_STRCASECMP
+ select BUILT_IN_ATOI
+ select ALIGNED_PG_ALLOC
+ select MULTITHREAD_OS
help
This enables the necesary options to compile Palacios with Kitten
+config LINUX
+ bool "Linux 2.6"
+ select BUILT_IN_STDLIB
+ select BUILT_IN_ATOI
+ select FILE
+ help
+ This enables the necessary options to compile Palacios with Linux 2.6
+ Currently, this is in development, and only 2.6.32 is verified to work
+
+config MINIX
+ bool "MINIX 3"
+ help
+ This enables the necesary options to compile Palacios with Kitten
+
+config OTHER_OS
+ bool "Other OS"
+ help
+ Choose this to compile Palacios for a Generic Host OS
+ (Formerly GeekOS)
+
+endchoice
config CRAY_XT
bool "Red Storm (Cray XT3/XT4)"
Compile with support for Intel VMX
+config DEBUG_INFO
+ bool "Compile with Debug Information"
+ default n
+ help
+ Compiles the Palacios library with debugging symbols
+
+
+menu "Supported host OS features"
+
config MULTITHREAD_OS
- bool "Compile for a multi threaded OS"
+ bool "Host support for multiple threads"
default y
help
- This allows Palacios to use OS thread mechanisms
+ Select this if your OS supports multiple threads of execution. This will enable features in Palacios
+ to require the creation of additional execution threads.
+config ALIGNED_PG_ALLOC
+ bool "Host support for aligned page allocations"
+ default n
+ help
+ Select this if your OS supports allocating memory pages using an alignment. This is required
+ if you want Palacios to run with large page table pages.
+
config MAX_CPUS
int "Maximum number of cpus"
range 1 255
default "16"
help
- Specifies the maximum number of hardware cpus Palacios can support
-
+ Specifies the maximum number of hardware CPUs supported by the OS
For uniprocessor environments, set this to 1
+config FILE
+ bool "Host Support for file operations"
+ default n
+ help
+ Select this if your host OS supports file operatoins and you want Palacios to be able to use them.
+
config CONSOLE
- bool "Include Console Support"
+ bool "Host Support for VM console"
default n
help
- Enable console support in Palacios
-
+ Select this if you want to forward a guest console interface to some host OS service
+config SOCKET
+ bool "Host support for Network Sockets"
+ default y
+ help
+ Select this if you host OS implements a socket API that is available to Palacios. This is required
+ to support the internal networking features of Palacios.
-config SOCKET
- bool "Include Network Socket Support"
- default y
+config PACKET
+ bool "Host support for Raw Packet Transmision"
+ depends on EXPERIMENTAL
+ default n
help
- Enable networking support in Palacios
+ Select this if you host OS implements a raw packet network API that is available to Palacios. This is required
+ to support the internal networking features of Palacios.
+endmenu
Enable telemetry information for shadow paging
-config INSTRUMENT_VMM
- bool "Enable VMM instrumentation"
- default n
- help
- Enable the instrumentation framework
- --------
- This is much heavier weight than profiling
config EXPERIMENTAL
bool "Enable Experimental options"
help
Enable the Vnet debug in Palacios
-config VNET_PROFILE
- depends on EXPERIMENTAL && VNET
- bool "Enable Vnet Profiling in Palacios"
- default n
- help
- Enable the Vnet performance profiling in Palacios
-
config LINUX_VIRTIO_VNET
bool "Enable Virtio VNET interface"
default n
Enable the Virtio VNET interface
config DEBUG_LINUX_VIRTIO_VNET
- bool "VNET Virtio Device Debugging"
+ bool "Virtio VNET Interface Debugging"
default n
depends on LINUX_VIRTIO_VNET && DEBUG_ON
help
- Enable debugging for the VNET Virtio Device
+ Enable debugging for the VNET Virtio interface
endmenu
source "Kconfig.stdlibs"
-
menu "Virtual Paging"
config SHADOW_PAGING
help
Enables debugging messages for VTLB implementation
+config SHADOW_PAGING_CACHE1
+ bool "Shadow Page Cache (1)"
+ default y
+ depends on SHADOW_PAGING
+ help
+ Enables caching implemenation for shadow paging
+
+
endmenu
+menu "Time Management"
+
+config TIME_HIDE_VM_COST
+ bool "Hide VMM Run Cost"
+ default n
+ help
+ Offset guest time from host time sufficiently to hide the cost of
+ running in the virtual machine. This can aid the consistency of
+ time between multiple timers, but can cause the guest to run
+ slightly slower than the host.
+
+config TIME_HIDE_EXIT_COST
+ bool "Hide VMM Exit Cost"
+ default n
+ depends on TIME_HIDE_VM_COST
+ help
+ Add additional TSC offset to hide VMM exit costs from the guest.
+
+config TIME_EXIT_COST_ADJUST
+ int "Exit cost adjustment for hiding VM exits"
+ default 2000
+ depends on TIME_HIDE_EXIT_COST
+ help
+ Amount to adjust the time to hide the exit cost of fully virtualizing
+ the timestamp counter. Used to hide the cost of fully virtualizing
+ the TSC for OSes that assume that reading the TSC is inexpensive
+ (e.g. Linux TSC-based timer calibration).
+
+config TIME_VIRTUALIZE_TSC
+ bool "Fully virtualize guest TSC"
+ default n
+ help
+ Virtualize the processor time stamp counter in the guest,
+ generally increasing consistency between various time sources
+ but also potentially making guest time run slower than real time.
+
+endmenu
+
menu "Symbiotic Functions"
config SYMBIOTIC
help
Enable Symbiotic module loading
-if SYMMOD
-
-source "modules/Kconfig"
-
-endif
-
-
endmenu
This turns on debugging support
+config DEBUG_SVM
+ bool "AMD SVM"
+ default n
+ depends on DEBUG_ON
+ help
+ This turns on debugging for the AMD SVM-specific code
+
+config DEBUG_VMX
+ bool "Intel VT"
+ default n
+ depends on DEBUG_ON
+ help
+ This turns on debugging for the Intel VT-specific code
+
+
config DEBUG_SHADOW_PAGING
bool "Shadow paging"
default n
help
This turns on debugging for the interrupt system
-
+config DEBUG_TIME
+ bool "Timing"
+ default n
+ depends on DEBUG_ON
+ help
+ This turns on debugging of system time virtualization
config DEBUG_IO
bool "IO"
