Re: [patch 09/32] xen: xen configuration

From: Zachary Amsden
Date: Mon Apr 30 2007 - 18:39:27 EST


Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
+config XEN
+ bool "Enable support for Xen hypervisor"
+ depends on PARAVIRT && !PREEMPT && !SMP
+ default y
+ help
+ This is the Linux Xen port. Enabling this will allow the
+ kernel to boot in a paravirtualized environment under the
+ Xen hypervisor.


Since the default assumption of paravirt is to support running on multiple hypervisors and backends are now defaulting to being on, make the same true of VMI.

Zach Since the default assumption of paravirt is to support all possible guest
backends, making VMI default to on when CONFIG_PARAVIRT is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@xxxxxxxxxx>

diff -r 20882b709da4 arch/i386/Kconfig
--- a/arch/i386/Kconfig Thu Apr 26 19:58:12 2007 -0700
+++ b/arch/i386/Kconfig Mon Apr 30 15:32:34 2007 -0700
@@ -227,6 +227,7 @@ config VMI
config VMI
bool "VMI Paravirt-ops support"
depends on PARAVIRT
+ default y
help
VMI provides a paravirtualized interface to the VMware ESX server
(it could be used by other hypervisors in theory too, but is not