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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Unmodified VMX guest support (domain firmware)

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Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Unmodified VMX guest support (domain firmware)
From: Arun Sharma <arun.sharma@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 15:24:43 -0700
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Leendert van Doorn wrote:
The following allows you to run unmodified guest operating systems
under Xen on VMX (VT) enabled processors. The tree lives under
<ROOT>/tools/dfw. Instead of booting a guest kernel, boot vmxloader and
specify the disk image in qemurc.


I think /boot/vmxloader is a better path.

http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRSHAREARCHITECTUREINDEPENDENTDATA

says /usr/share is for arch independent data.

        -Arun

--- a/tools/firmware/Makefile   Wed Jun  8 18:44:55 2005
+++ b/tools/firmware/Makefile   Wed Jun  8 15:19:39 2005
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 include $(XEN_ROOT)/tools/Rules.mk

 TARGET      := vmxassist/vmxloader
-INSTALL_DIR := $(DESTDIR)/usr/share/xen
+INSTALL_DIR := $(DESTDIR)/boot

 SUBDIRS :=
 SUBDIRS += rombios

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