Re: Boot into Xen on debian11

[Chuck Zmudzinski <brchuckz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 8/5/2022 5:19 PM, Bruno wrote:
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> Requested! 
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> https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/669340/acer-aspire-5-a517-52g-firmware-w-16-bit-pci-segment-size/p1?new=1
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>> On 3 Aug 2022, at 20:31, Chuck Zmudzinski 

I see Acer has not said anything in response to your post on its community
discussion page. If you can't rely on Acer to help you...

I have some suggestions for you if you still want to try to use Xen
(instead of KVM, Hyper-V, VirtualBox, etc):

1) Try the current version of OpenSuse and see if their version of Xen works. 
If not...
2) Try the current version of Fedora and see if their version of Xen works. If 
not...
3) Try to install QubesOS [1] and if you still see the problem with QubesOS,
search their online forums and bug reports and if no one has reported it there,
then report it to them. I think they are the most likely to try to find a 
solution to
run Xen on your Acer if neither OpenSuse nor Fedora has found a solution yet.

If QubesOS (or OpenSuse or Fedora) solves it and you are satisfied with their
offering, then you are done. If you want to run Debian instead, you
might be able to port the QubesOS (or OpenSuse or Fedora) solution to Debian,
but you will probably have to do all the work of finding the patches in the 
solution
that solves the problem on your Acer, build and test Debian with those patches
until you get it working in Debian. Then you could submit the solution to Debian
in the form of a Debian bug report with your patches as the proposed solution,
and maybe Debian will fix it in their distro.

Obviously, this would be a project for a willing open source software hacker, 
and
would obviously take quite a bit of time.

[1] https://www.qubes-os.org/