Pkg xen devel - Mar 2010 - XenServer and Debian 5.0 64 bit guest

Hello,
we start to look for virtualization purposes XenServer wich states to support
Debian 5.0 but only for 32 bit guest, and there is no 64 bit guest support.
As from Citrix XenServer team information this is problem of Debian kernel.
Is there any chans this situation to be fixed ?

Best regards,
     George Chavdarov
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On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 16:22 +0200, George Chavdarov
wrote:
> Hello,
> we start to look for virtualization purposes XenServer wich states to
> support Debian 5.0 but only for 32 bit guest, and there is no 64 bit
> guest support.
> As from Citrix XenServer team information this is problem of Debian
> kernel.
It's not a problem with the kernel as such.

The issue here is that the Debian installer does not include a variant
which uses a Xen-compatible kernel which is in turn because there was no
support in the pvops kernel for 64 bit the 2.6.26 which is what Lenny
uses.
> Is there any chans this situation to be fixed ?
This is fixed already in Squeeze.

The nature of the changes is such that backporting to Lenny is extremely
unlikely.

Ian.
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