> I'm not familiar with ScaleMP / vSMP but it seems like it's a different
> machine type, with a different architecture for large scale SMP systems,
> right?
About right, except it also fully supports amd64/em64t.
> This sounds like infrastructure that Xen itself would need to support, since
> Xen is responsible for many of the lowlevel details of the underlying system.
>
> Simply compiling the infrastructure into the guest would not suffice to make
> Xen work right on that architecture.
Well, guess I'm lucky I still haven't ordered all those machines...I'll
just have to wait then.
> Furthermore, it looks like the ScaleMP architecture patches are incompatible
> with the Xen patches, which is causing your compile error. However, given
> there are likely to be deeper problems with this approach I'm not sure that
> getting the compilation to work would solve your problem...
>
> Out of interest, does Xen itself actually boot on this system?
Since vSMP fully supports, in my case, em64t, and since I've compiled
the xen kernel for a generic amd64 architecture, yes it does -for a
single machine cluster, infortunately not what I intended in the first
place-.
Thanks for you answers,
-Oliver.
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