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lguest: documentation I: Preparation

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The netfilter code had very good documentation: the Netfilter Hacking HOWTO.
Noone ever read it.

So this time I'm trying something different, using a bit of Knuthiness.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Rusty Russell
2007-07-26 10:41:02 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
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/*
* Lguest specific paravirt-ops implementation
/*P:010
* A hypervisor allows multiple Operating Systems to run on a single machine.
* To quote David Wheeler: "Any problem in computer science can be solved with
* another layer of indirection."
*
* We keep things simple in two ways. First, we start with a normal Linux
* kernel and insert a module (lg.ko) which allows us to run other Linux
* kernels the same way we'd run processes. We call the first kernel the Host,
* and the others the Guests. The program which sets up and configures Guests
* (such as the example in Documentation/lguest/lguest.c) is called the
* Launcher.
*
* Secondly, we only run specially modified Guests, not normal kernels. When
* you set CONFIG_LGUEST to 'y' or 'm', this automatically sets
* CONFIG_LGUEST_GUEST=y, which compiles this file into the kernel so it knows
* how to be a Guest. This means that you can use the same kernel you boot
* normally (ie. as a Host) as a Guest.
*
* These Guests know that they cannot do privileged operations, such as disable
* interrupts, and that they have to ask the Host to do such things explicitly.
* This file consists of all the replacements for such low-level native
* hardware operations: these special Guest versions call the Host.
*
* So how does the kernel know it's a Guest? The Guest starts at a special
* entry point marked with a magic string, which sets up a few things then
* calls here. We replace the native functions in "struct paravirt_ops"
* with our Guest versions, then boot like normal. :*/
/*
* Copyright (C) 2006, Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> IBM Corporation.
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify