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Re: [Xen-users] How to run 32bit HVM guest on 64bit dom0?

To: David Young <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] How to run 32bit HVM guest on 64bit dom0?
From: Azher Mughal <azher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:34:38 -0800
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I am running CentOS 5.2 64 bit with Debian Etch in 32 bit mode. I
used xen GUI to install 6 guests and so far no issues other than
Multicast traffic not passing through. Here is my xm info:


release                : 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5xen
version                : #1 SMP Tue Dec 16 12:26:32 EST 2008
machine                : x86_64
nr_cpus                : 4
nr_nodes               : 1
sockets_per_node       : 2
cores_per_socket       : 2
threads_per_core       : 1
cpu_mhz                : 2992
hw_caps                :
bfebfbff:20100800:00000000:00000140:0004e3bd:00000000:00000001
total_memory           : 4094
free_memory            : 1
node_to_cpu            : node0:0-3
xen_major              : 3
xen_minor              : 1
xen_extra              : .2-92.1.22.el5
xen_caps               : xen-3.0-x86_64 xen-3.0-x86_32p
hvm-3.0-x86_32 hvm-3.0-x86_32p hvm-3.0-x86_64
xen_pagesize           : 4096
platform_params        : virt_start=0xffff800000000000
xen_changeset          : unavailable
cc_compiler            : gcc version 4.1.2 20071124 (Red Hat 4.1.2-42)
cc_compile_by          : mockbuild
cc_compile_domain      : centos.org
cc_compile_date        : Tue Dec 16 11:51:08 EST 2008
xend_config_format     : 2


David Young wrote:
> Hey folks,
> 
> I'm trying to run a 32-bit guest via HVM on a 64bit dom0.. I don't know
> how to tell Xen to emulate 32 bits though (the guest has to be 32bit,
> it's a 32bit dev environment).
> 
> In the hvm example config file, I see the following:
> 
> device_model = '/usr/lib64/xen/bin/qemu-dm'
> 
> And I don't have an equivalent '/usr/lib/xen' 32-bit binary.
> 
> I'm running CentOS 5.2, and "xm info" says:
> 
> release                : 2.6.18-92.1.17.el5xen
> version                : #1 SMP Tue Nov 4 14:13:09 EST 2008
> machine                : x86_64
> nr_cpus                : 4
> nr_nodes               : 1
> sockets_per_node       : 1
> cores_per_socket       : 4
> threads_per_core       : 1
> cpu_mhz                : 2204
> hw_caps                :
> 178bfbff:efd3fbff:00000000:00000110:00802009:00000000:000007ff
> total_memory           : 3837
> free_memory            : 0
> node_to_cpu            : node0:0-3
> xen_major              : 3
> xen_minor              : 1
> xen_extra              : .2-92.1.17.el5
> xen_caps               : xen-3.0-x86_64 xen-3.0-x86_32p hvm-3.0-x86_32
> hvm-3.0-x86_32p hvm-3.0-x86_64
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks!
> - David
> 
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