Hi I''m thinking about moving all my guests over to PAE so that I can run on a 64-bit HV. I''ve been working under the assumption that Plan 9 doesn''t support Xen/PAE - after all, it didn''t exist when the port first happened. Any chance that PAE support will be added? Does native Plan 9 even support it? Ron: sorry for directing this at you, but I figured you''d know ;-) Cheers, Mark -- Dave: Just a question. What use is a unicyle with no seat? And no pedals! Mark: To answer a question with a question: What use is a skateboard? Dave: Skateboards have wheels. Mark: My wheel has a wheel! _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
On 5/30/07, Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:> Ron: sorry for directing this at you, but I figured you''d know ;-)no problem. I don''t think there are plans for PAE in plan 9. The feeling is "buy a K8" :-) I am not sure it would be terribly hard, the mm code in plan 9 is one file, but nobody''s looked. I''ll try to see what it would take. thanks ron _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
oh yeah, my new address is rminnich@gmail.com or rminnich@sandia.gov thanks ron _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
> no problem. > > I don''t think there are plans for PAE in plan 9. The feeling is "buy a K8" > :-)Done :-)> I am not sure it would be terribly hard, the mm code in plan 9 is one > file, but nobody''s looked. > > I''ll try to see what it would take.Actually, I guess just doing the same stuff, but using PAE oughtn''t to be that hard? No need to actually support big memory systems, or anything like that. It''d be rather cool if this was doable: the main focus in 32-bit land these days seems to be on supporting PAE guests (both because folks want to support big memory on servers and because it lets you run them paravirtualised on 64-bit). The default installs of RedHat, Centos, Fedora, etc are PAE, as are the community RPMs on the xensource website. It''s kind of a shame that there''s not support for running non-PAE 32-bit guests, but since it involves shadow mode it makes things a bit more gross. Btw, I''ve got a Plan 9 guest successfully installed on my non-PAE Xen test box at the moment, which I connect to using drawterm. It''s very cool to have a live Plan 9 system there running, although I must confess I haven''t fully understood it yet :-) Cheers, Mark -- Dave: Just a question. What use is a unicyle with no seat? And no pedals! Mark: To answer a question with a question: What use is a skateboard? Dave: Skateboards have wheels. Mark: My wheel has a wheel! _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
On 5/30/07, Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:> Btw, I''ve got a Plan 9 guest successfully installed on my non-PAE Xen test box > at the moment, which I connect to using drawterm. It''s very cool to have a > live Plan 9 system there running, although I must confess I haven''t fully > understood it yet :-)It is a learning curve. It''s as big a change from Unix as Unix was from its predecessors. But I''ve found it worthwhile :-) thanks ron _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel