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RE: [Xen-users] migrating 32 bit guests between 64 and 32 bit hosts - po

To: "Gerd Hoffmann" <kraxel@xxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-users] migrating 32 bit guests between 64 and 32 bit hosts - possible?
From: "Petersson, Mats" <Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 18:48:59 +0100
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Gerd Hoffmann
> Sent: 24 January 2007 17:44
> To: Petersson, Mats
> Cc: Tomasz Chmielewski; xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Xen-users] migrating 32 bit guests between 64 
> and 32 bit hosts - possible?
> 
> Petersson, Mats wrote:
> > There is work to allow 32-bit PAE on top of 64-bit guest, 
> but I don't
> > think it's quite ready for production yet - although that's not
> > something I work on, so I could be wrong. 
> 
> It is (partly) merged in unstable, thus by definition not 
> ready yet for
> production ;)
> 
> Using 32bit domains (both dom0 and domU) on a 64bit hypervisor works

You are referring to xen-unstable, right? Not in a "released version" of
Xen?

--
Mats
> quite ok at the moment.  Mixing 32 and 64bit pv domains on the same
> machine needs patches for the tools which are not merged yet.  Also it
> is broken right now.  And initially it also will be limited
> feature-wise, the tools have to learn to handle domains with 
> non-native
> bitwidth ...
> 
> cheers,
>   Gerd
> 
> -- 
> Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxx>
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