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Re: [Xen-users] Xen 32 w/PAE will not allow over 16GB RAM

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Xen 32 w/PAE will not allow over 16GB RAM
From: Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:03:47 +0100
Cc: Aaron Weller // Crucial Paradigm <aaron@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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I'm not aware of that limit having been lifted.

Just wanted to point out that if you have 64-bit hardware available, you can 
run a 64-bit Xen with a 32-bit PAE dom0 and domUs, so it's not necessary to 
completely rebuild your system in order to make such a switch.

Cheers,
Mark

On Tuesday 22 July 2008, Aaron Weller // Crucial Paradigm wrote:
> We have faced a limitation when Xen 32bit running PAE will not allow
> over 16GB RAM.  I came across this message:
> http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2005-11/msg00159.html
>
> However I'm not sure this still holds?
>
> Is there anyway around this limitation other changing to 64bit?
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