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Christian Borntraeger77b455f2008-03-25 18:47:36 +01001#
2# KVM configuration
3#
Avi Kivity0ba12d12009-05-21 16:45:19 +03004source "virt/kvm/Kconfig"
Avi Kivity5d9b8e32009-01-04 18:04:18 +02005
Christian Borntraeger77b455f2008-03-25 18:47:36 +01006menuconfig VIRTUALIZATION
7 bool "Virtualization"
8 default y
9 ---help---
10 Say Y here to get to see options for using your Linux host to run other
11 operating systems inside virtual machines (guests).
12 This option alone does not add any kernel code.
13
14 If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and disabled.
15
16if VIRTUALIZATION
17
18config KVM
19 tristate "Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) support"
20 depends on HAVE_KVM && EXPERIMENTAL
21 select PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
22 select ANON_INODES
Christian Borntraeger77b455f2008-03-25 18:47:36 +010023 ---help---
24 Support hosting paravirtualized guest machines using the SIE
25 virtualization capability on the mainframe. This should work
26 on any 64bit machine.
27
28 This module provides access to the hardware capabilities through
29 a character device node named /dev/kvm.
30
31 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module
32 will be called kvm.
33
34 If unsure, say N.
35
Christian Borntraeger77b455f2008-03-25 18:47:36 +010036# OK, it's a little counter-intuitive to do this, but it puts it neatly under
37# the virtualization menu.
Michael S. Tsirkin3a4d5c92010-01-14 06:17:27 +000038source drivers/vhost/Kconfig
Christian Borntraeger77b455f2008-03-25 18:47:36 +010039source drivers/virtio/Kconfig
40
41endif # VIRTUALIZATION