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RE: [Xen-devel] [RFC] New shadow paging code

To: "Tim Deegan" <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] [RFC] New shadow paging code
From: "Puthiyaparambil, Aravindh" <aravindh.puthiyaparambil@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 11:34:27 -0400
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> >
> > I'll look into that; sounds like the results of CPUID are confusing
the
> > linux kernel.
> 
> Since you were hitting a bug with pae=1, I assume that error happened
> with pae=0?  In that case it's not surprising: x86_64 linux requires
PAE
> support (among other things) to boot, and "Your CPU does not support
> long mode" is its generic response to not finding a required feature.

Ah yes, I had not set pae=1 when trying the x86_64 boot. I did not
realize that it was required. I thought all that I needed was ACPI=1 and
APIC=1.

Aravindh

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