X-Git-Url: http://v3vee.org/palacios/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=palacios.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=RUNNING.WINDOWS;fp=RUNNING.WINDOWS;h=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000;hp=b6e5f8dc914ec7162e9cc735ca1ca7ba0c0e758a;hb=421c054f9e4e08d0cf8b31ee56a396b0792588f1;hpb=a6bb8353586a69e1a7da521f1098815860bec513 diff --git a/RUNNING.WINDOWS b/RUNNING.WINDOWS deleted file mode 100644 index b6e5f8d..0000000 --- a/RUNNING.WINDOWS +++ /dev/null @@ -1,48 +0,0 @@ -Once you have built a vmm.img file (see SETUP.WINDOWS for how to set -up and test the development environment needed to do this), you can do -the following: - -- dd vmm.img to a floppy and boot from it (linux) -- network boot from vmm.img using PXE (linux) -- use mkisofs to build a bootable cdrom from vmm.img (linux) -- boot from vmm.img using qemu or other emulator - -All but the last option (qemu) are very site-dependent. - -To boot from vmm.img using qemu, do the following: - -Make sure qemu is installed. You will need at least version 0.9.1 for -the necessary support of AMD SVM virtualization extensions. - -If you would like to install qemu, a copy is in the repository. -Here is how to install it. - -export DEVROOT=/path/to/your/vmm-tools -cd $DEVROOT/devtools -unzip $DEVROOT/utils/Qemu-0.9.1-windows.zip -export QEMU=$DEVROOT/devtools/Qemu-0.9.1-windows - -A subtle thing in using this windows port of qemu from a cygwin -environment is that it uses the *windows* paths, not the cygwin paths. -Sort of. This is a bit fuzzy. - -A simple trick is to copy your vmm.img and whatever else *to* $QEMU -and then run a modified qemu.bat file from there. Note that it is important -that the batch file run $QEMU/bin/qemu-system-x86_64. See below -for a more complete example. - -You can also run qemu and generate the path in a somewhat convulted -way. For example, if I develop in $DEVROOT/vmm-hack1/build, and -$QEMU is as above, then, I can run as follows: - -$QEMU/bin/qemu-system-x86_64.exe -L ../../devtools/Qemu-0.9.1-windows/Bios -m 1024 -serial file:serial.out -fda vmm.img - -On running this, you should see the vmm boot in a window, accompanied -by lots of debugging output being spit into the file serial.out. - -You can add other options to, for example, provide a boot cd, network -cards, etc. - - - -