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Re: [Xen-devel] Fwd: 3.0.2 domu files not working on 3.0.3

To: jdsw <jdsw2002@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Fwd: 3.0.2 domu files not working on 3.0.3
From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 22:10:48 +0000
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On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 01:53:54PM -0800, jdsw wrote:
> My machine has PAE and xen with PAE.
> 
> I got the domU kernel and ramdisk from one of the fedora mirror from under 
> the xen directory.  From the xend-debug.log it seems you may be right, these 
> may not be PAE kernels.
> 
> example site :
>  ftp://mirror.eas.muohio.edu/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/os/images/xen/
>  
>  The errors in the debug file
>  xend-debug.log
>   ERROR: Unrecognized image format
>   ERROR: Error constructing guest OS
>   ERROR: Unrecognized image format
>   ERROR: Error constructing guest OS
>   
> 1. how do I determine, if the kernel is PAE enabled or not. 
> a. when the system is running 
> b. when I just have the kernel files as in this case ? 

For Fedora the naming of the kernel tells you. The non-PAE kernels are
called kernel-xenU / kernel-xen0, while the PAE kernels are kernel-xen.
FC5 was non-PAE, but FC6 is PAE.

Regards,
Dan.
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