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diff --git a/share/man/man4/xen.4 b/share/man/man4/xen.4 index 83b3d12..c2b1f5b 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/xen.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/xen.4 @@ -28,24 +28,16 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd December 17, 2010 +.Dd April 30, 2015 .Dt XEN 4 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm xen .Nd Xen Hypervisor Guest (DomU) Support .Sh SYNOPSIS -To compile para-virtualized (PV) Xen guest support into an i386 kernel, place -the following lines in your kernel configuration file: -.Bd -ragged -offset indent -.Cd "options PAE" -.Cd "options XEN" -.Cd "nooptions NATIVE" -.Ed -.Pp To compile hardware-assisted virtualization (HVM) Xen guest support with -para-virtualized drivers into an amd64 kernel, place the following lines in -your kernel configuration file: +para-virtualized drivers into an amd64 or i386 kernel, +place the following lines in your kernel configuration file: .Bd -ragged -offset indent .Cd "options XENHVM" .Cd "device xenpci" @@ -69,34 +61,14 @@ and hence able to optimize certain behaviors to improve performance or semantics. .Pp .Fx -supports a fully para-virtualized (PV) kernel on the i386 architecture using -.Cd "options XEN" -and -.Cd "nooptions NATIVE" ; -currently, this requires use of a PAE kernel, enabled via -.Cd "options PAE" . -.Pp -.Fx -supports hardware-assisted virtualization (HVM) on both the i386 and amd64 -kernels; however, PV device drivers with an HVM kernel are only supported on -the amd64 architecture, and require -.Cd "options XENHVM" -and -.Cd "device xenpci" . +supports hardware-assisted virtualization (HVM) on both i386 and amd64 +kernels. .Pp Para-virtualized device drivers are required in order to support certain functionality, such as processing management requests, returning idle physical memory pages to the hypervisor, etc. .Ss Xen DomU device drivers -Xen para-virtualized drivers are automatically added to the kernel if a PV -kernel is compiled using -.Cd "options XEN" ; -for HVM environments, -.Cd "options XENHVM" -and -.Cd "device xenpci" -are required. -The follow drivers are supported: +These para-virtualized drivers are supported: .Bl -hang -offset indent -width blkfront .It Nm balloon Allow physical memory pages to be returned to the hypervisor as a result of @@ -148,8 +120,6 @@ It is recommended that adaptive locking be disabled when using Xen: .Cd "options NO_ADAPTIVE_RWLOCKS" .Cd "options NO_ADAPTIVE_SX" .Ed -.Sh SEE ALSO -.Xr pae 4 .Sh HISTORY Support for .Nm @@ -173,12 +143,6 @@ This manual page was written by .Fx is only able to run as a Xen guest (DomU) and not as a Xen host (Dom0). .Pp -A fully para-virtualized (PV) kernel is only supported on i386, and not -amd64. -.Pp -Para-virtualized drivers under hardware-assisted virtualization (HVM) kernel -are only supported on amd64, not i386. -.Pp As of this release, Xen PV DomU support is not heavily tested; instability has been reported during VM migration of PV kernels. .Pp |