* Borislav Petkov <b...@alien8.de> wrote:
> From: Borislav Petkov <b...@suse.de>
> Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 18:24:34 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH -v2] x86: Add a Kconfig shortcut for kvm guest kernel
>
> This is pretty useful for the case where people want to boot the
> resulting kernel in qemu/kvm. Instead of going and searching for each
> required option through the Kconfig maze, this single option should
> simply enable everything required/good to have to boot the resulting
> kernel in the guest.
Please mention:
' This patch is based on a similar utility patch of the external
lkvm tree. '
>
> Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang...@intel.com>
> Originally-by: Pekka Enberg <penb...@kernel.org>
> Originally-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha...@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <b...@suse.de>
> ---
>
>
> Here's v2 which should be addressing all review comments so far.
>
>
> arch/x86/Kconfig | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 38 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
> index 5651374d179f..76a95ffa959a 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
> @@ -680,6 +680,44 @@ config KVM_GUEST
> underlying device model, the host provides the guest with
> timing infrastructure such as time of day, and system time
>
> +config KVM_GUEST_COMMODITY_OPTIONS
Call this KVM_GUEST_COMMON_OPTIONS?
> + bool "Enable commodity options for a standalone KVM guest"
> + depends on KVM_GUEST
> + select NET
> + select NETDEVICES
> + select BLOCK
> + select BLK_DEV
> + select NETWORK_FILESYSTEMS
> + select INET
> + select EXPERIMENTAL
> + select TTY
> + select SERIAL_8250
> + select SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE
> + select IP_PNP
> + select IP_PNP_DHCP
> + select BINFMT_ELF
> + select PCI_MSI
> + select HAVE_ARCH_KGDB
> + select DEBUG_KERNEL
> + select KGDB
> + select KGDB_SERIAL_CONSOLE
> + select VIRTUALIZATION
> + select VIRTIO
> + select VIRTIO_RING
> + select VIRTIO_PCI
> + select VIRTIO_BLK
> + select VIRTIO_CONSOLE
> + select VIRTIO_NET
> + select 9P_FS
> + select NET_9P
> + select NET_9P_VIRTIO
> + ---help---
> + Select guest kernel functionality which facilitates booting the
> + kernel as a guest in qemu/kvm. This entails basic stuff like
s/qemu/qemu or lkvm
> + serial support, kgdb, virtio and other so that you can be able to
> + have commodity functionality like serial output from the guest,
> + networking, etc.
And seemless host file system integration into guest context. (that is
what the 9P options are about)
Thanks,
Ingo
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