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RE: [Xen-users] AMD SVN and Xen3

To: "Marco" <bigfoot29@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [Xen-users] AMD SVN and Xen3
From: "Petersson, Mats" <Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 13:27:27 +0200
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Thread-topic: [Xen-users] AMD SVN and Xen3
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Marco
> Sent: 09 June 2006 06:39
> To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Xen-users] AMD SVN and Xen3
> 
> So, as promised, here an first summary.
> 
> Hardware: AMD Athlon64 X2-4600+ with Asus M2N-Mainboard.
> Just a short hint: By far not all memory modules work with the Asus
> boards! Make sure to have compatible ones...
> 
> After 2 days of trial and error I got the following results:
> 
> Debian "Sarge" x64: Doesn't like the new nVidia SATA-Controller (will
> check today with PATA-interface)
> 
> Debian "Etch" x64: Trouble with installation (setup freezes when
> installing more than the pure core). After this is working, I 
> tried HVM
> - without much luck. After setting it up (.hvm config file) like
> mentioned in the manual, it just reboots the computer without any
> error-message. No clue why. All modules mentioned in the manual are
> installed... Didn't try paravirtualization here.

Exactly which version of Xen are you running (copy of the output from
"xm info" would help!). 

> 
> Debian "SID"/unstable x64: Installs with many problems. Virtual
> paravirtualized domains stop with the comment "can't connect 
> to network
> backend" - didn't try HVM due to problems with mentioned trouble.
> 
> 
> So all in all no luck. But there is a question: Does AMD64's SVM
> (Pacifica) work also when being in 32-Bit-mode? When thats the case I
> can check if the stuff is working using debian "Sarge" (thats supposed
> to work well) and maybe update later to AMD64 when Etch 
> becomes stable.

We test both 32- and 64-bit versions of Xen when we make our
contributions to Xen-source, so it _SHOULD_ work. Of course, sometimes
we'll miss something in one direction or the other [I mostly develop on
a 64-bit base, so I personally know that my changes work on 64-bit
systems, but before it's submitted to Xen-Source, all changes should be
tested on 32-bit systems too], there's certainly no INTENTIONAL
differences. But since 64-bit version of Xen was a bit flaky early on,
the first version of Xen to work on SVM was the 32-bit version - so
since I saw that you got the 32-bit version working, perhaps you're
running an older version of Xen... 

Also, not so long ago, SMP-version of the Hypervisor would cause all
sorts of problems, but it's been fixed for several weeks at least... Xen
changes very much from day to day... 

--
Mats


> 
> Anyone knowledge about that?
> 
> Regards, Bigfoot29
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