Re: amd64 + Xen + arcmsr = crash

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 06:38:38PM +0200, Jukka Marin wrote:
> > 
> > the is the i386 port you're using PAE or non-PAE (if it's a
> > Xen 3.3.1 i386, it's most probably PAE) ?
> 
> I'm not using i386 on the test machine at all.  I use either amd64 (GENERIC
> kernel) or Xen dom0 amd64:
> 
> NetBSD jadis 5.0_STABLE NetBSD 5.0_STABLE (GENERIC) #0: Mon Feb 15 17:10:57
> EET 2010  root@jadis:/tmp/nb5/obj/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC amd64
> 
> or
> 
> NetBSD jadis 5.0_STABLE NetBSD 5.0_STABLE (XEN3_DOM0) #0: Mon Feb 15
> 17:11:08 EET 2010  root@jadis:/tmp/nb5/obj/sys/arch/amd64/compile/XEN3_DOM0
> amd64

But you could try a i386-PAE dom0 kernel with a amd64 hypervisor.
This is supposed to work (and the hypervisor would see the full
memory, and allow to run amd64 guests). This would be an interesting
test.

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