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Re: [Xen-users] Using mainline PVM
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 03:55:24PM +0100, Mark Williamson wrote:
> First off, I take it you've compiled the guest with PAE? Only PAE guests will
> run under x86_64 Xen.
I'll check on that.
> Second, you should be fine off using the top level vmlinux / vmlinuz. bzImage
> won't (yet) work.
The toplevel vmlinux is 66MB! How to shrink it? Is strip(1)
safe?
> Thirdly, confusingly, vanilla 3.1 doesn't properly handle pre-3.1-era 32-bit
> guest kernels. I believe changes to fix this are in the unstable tree... If
> the mainline kernel doesn't use the latest post-3.1 interfaces then maybe
> this is the problem you're seeing. In which case a newer Xen / tools (and
> possibly dom0) might solve it.
This was Linus' mainline git tree as of my email. I "hope"
that's new enough :-)
> These are my guesses; I've not tried Xen64, nor using a mainline kernel
> myself, though so YMMV, sorry.
Thanks, I'll let you know how it turns out!
Joel
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