Re: [Xen-users] Using mainline PVM

[Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 03:55:24PM +0100, Mark Williamson wrote:
> First off, I take it you've compiled the guest with PAE?  Only PAE guests will
> run under x86_64 Xen.

        I'll check on that.

> Second, you should be fine off using the top level vmlinux / vmlinuz.  bzImage
> won't (yet) work.

        The toplevel vmlinux is 66MB!  How to shrink it?  Is strip(1)
safe?
        
> Thirdly, confusingly, vanilla 3.1 doesn't properly handle pre-3.1-era 32-bit 
> guest kernels.  I believe changes to fix this are in the unstable tree...  If 
> the mainline kernel doesn't use the latest post-3.1 interfaces then maybe 
> this is the problem you're seeing.  In which case a newer Xen / tools (and 
> possibly dom0) might solve it.

        This was Linus' mainline git tree as of my email.  I "hope"
that's new enough :-)

> These are my guesses; I've not tried Xen64, nor using a mainline kernel 
> myself, though so YMMV, sorry.

        Thanks, I'll let you know how it turns out!

Joel

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