Hi all, if I want to use Xen on a machine with more than 4 GB of RAM, and devide RAM into portions of less than 4 GB for dom0 and each domU, do I - have to use kind of highmem mechanisms in the xen0 kernel or - have to compile the xen0 kernel as X86-64? Does X86-64 already work for xen0? Thanks for any help and hint. Dirk _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
> if I want to use Xen on a machine with more than 4 GB of RAM, > and devide RAM into portions of less than 4 GB for dom0 and > each domU, do I > > - have to use kind of highmem mechanisms in the xen0 kernel or > - have to compile the xen0 kernel as X86-64? > > Does X86-64 already work for xen0?If you have >4GB of RAM you need to wait until 3.0 is released, or try your luck with the unstable tree. If you are running a 64bit distribution, just typing ''make world'' should build you a 64bit Xen and kernel. If you want to try PAE, build on a 32bit machine with ''make XEN_TARGET_X86_PAE=y world'' Ian _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Hi, On Monday 01 August 2005 19:21, Dirk H. Schulz wrote:> if I want to use Xen on a machine with more than 4 GB of RAM, and devide > RAM into portions of less than 4 GB for dom0 and each domU, do I > > - have to use kind of highmem mechanisms in the xen0 kernel or > - have to compile the xen0 kernel as X86-64?All kernels running (xen0 and xenUs) have to use the same method of accessing Highmem, so all have to be PAE or 64bit or plain. Mixing them is not possible and not planned IIRC. That said, xen-2* doesn''t have PAE or x86_64 support, so you''ll be stuck with 3.something gigs of available ram (whatever your bios/pci devices leaves untouched)> Does X86-64 already work for xen0?Should, but I never tested... thought about using EM64T for a while when my new server arrived, but then decided it would be too much of a hassle cuz I''d loose the ability to migrate my existing xen-2.0.6 domUs smoothly. Only lost about 800mb or ram that way, and had enough left over... maybe when 3.0 is stable ;). /Ernst _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users