Re: [Xen-API] [Xen-devel] Today is Xen Project Test Day for 4.4 RC3

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Sun, 2014-02-02 at 23:55 -0700, jacek burghardt wrote:
> Well I was testing rc3 and I am running server 2012 with 12 gb of ram
> and share point. I had installed all Microsoft updates and then I
> would get server 2012 crashing qemu in dmesg.

Please report as a bug in a new thread providing all the relevant
information suggested by
http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Reporting_Bugs_against_Xen

>  I had to lower ram assigned  to 10 gb and I was able to complete
> patches installation. It seems that xen 4.4 rc3 is limited to 10gb of
> ram. 
> Is xen switching to qemu 64 from  i386, it seems that many
> improvements in chip set support were made   with 64 bit version of
> qemu and it uses 256KB seabios. 

Xen does not use the CPU emulation capabilities of qemu. Xen only uses
the device emulation parts of Qemu, which are the same for both i386 and
amd64.

Therefore the distinction between the i386 and amd64 versions of qemu
are irrelevant to our use case.

Ian.



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