Ah, I think this is related to difficulties supporting negative segment
accesses¹. This means we have to rebuild glibc and we lose some NPTL
functionality in doing that.
However, this problem is not present if you run a 64-bit hypervisor. You can
run 64-bit or 32-bit (PAE) Linux guests on the 64-bit hypervisor with no
limitations (even as domain 0) and the negative segment access¹ problem
goes away.
You should try that out! The only tricky point may be if the distro you use
has deliberately picked different glibc when running a 32-bit Xen version of
Linux, despite the fact you are running on 64-bit hypervisor. In that case
you might have to tweak a ld.so config file to stop searching for nosegneg
libraries.
But short answer is: use a 64-bit hypervisor and it should all work fine.
-- Keir
On 4/4/08 22:30, "Bart Heinsius" <bheinsius@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don''t know what it means exactly, except that it hear it can
cause problems
> for BDB.
> I want to run a production Zimbra instance in a Xen vm and certain people
at
> Zimbra advice me to not do that unless it has assembly-language mutex
support,
> since BDB uses assembly level mutex locks by default.
> I was pointed to:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=91933
> http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-software/200603/msg00214.html
>
> and
> http://www.zimbra.com/forums/installation/14121-virtualization-zimbra.html
>
> -- Bart
>
> Keir Fraser wrote:
>>
>> What does that even mean?
>>
>> -- Keir
>>
>>
>> On 4/4/08 21:45, "Bart Heinsius" <bheinsius@gmail.com>
>> <mailto:bheinsius@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I read some time ago that Xen does not have assembly-language mutex
support.
>>> Is this still the case in Xen 3.2?
>>>
>>> best regards,
>>> Bart.
>>>
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