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@@ -40,16 +40,29 @@ Building
 
 Requirements:
 
- * livecd-creator (on Fedora the package is 'livecd-tools')
- * ocaml, ocaml-extlib, ocaml-pcre, ocaml-xml-light (all in Fedora)
+ * livecd-creator (in Fedora the package is called 'livecd-tools')
+ * rpmbuild (in Fedora package rpm-build)
+ * ocaml, ocaml-findlib, ocaml-extlib, ocaml-pcre, ocaml-xml-light,
+   ocaml-newt, ocaml-libvirt, ocaml-fileutils, ocaml-gettext,
+   ocaml-gettext-devel (all in Fedora)
  * qemu and/or KVM (only for testing)
 
 Then:
 
-       ./configure && make
+       ./configure --help
+       ./configure
+       make
 
-As root, 'make build' will build an ISO image called
-'virt-p2v-$VERSION.iso'.
+Then:
+
+       make rpm        builds the virt-p2v RPM
+       make build      (AS ROOT) builds an ISO image
+                       called virt-p2v-$VERSION.iso
+
+Other useful commands:
+
+        make man        Build manual page
+        make pxe       Make a PXE-boot image in tftpboot/ subdirectory
 
 Burn the image on to a CD using standard tools.
 
@@ -64,3 +77,13 @@ eg. from /var/lib/xen/images, to experiment with).  For example:
 
   cp /var/lib/xen/images/rhel5gax32fv.img .
   make boot HDA=rhel5gax32fv.img
+
+
+Serial console
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+With livecd-tools >= 018, the CD should enable the serial console
+(ttyS0, 9600 8N1).
+
+You can test this with:
+  make boot [...] SERIAL=yes