[Lguest] Problem launching lguest

[Rusty Russell]

On Tuesday 30 December 2008 03:19:27 Rajesh Battala wrote:
> Hi,
> i have worked on different kinds of Hypervisors as an End User and
> developing Management UI's for them.
> i have downloaded your foss.in presentation. i am very much happy to see a
> very simple Hypervisor (lguest). i was searching for a simple hypervisor to
> hack it and develop it.
> thanks a lot for generating such a nice concept, and developing it.
> 
> i have followed your steps to create VM.
> i have a OpenSuse11.0 box with 2.6.25 kernel. i have downloaded 2.6.28-git
> kernel and followed the steps you have written in then lguest.txt file.
> after configuring, successfully i have build the kernel and booted with it.
> 
> builded the lguest.c file which is in the *Documentation/lguest/lguest*
> 
> i have runned it as   ./lguest 512 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.25.18-0.2-pae
> root=/dev/vda --verbose.

Ah, if it's a PAE kernel it doesn't have lguest support.  There is a patch
for this, but it's not merged yet.

Hope that helps,
Rusty.