Subject: Re: Xen on Opteron?
To: Juan RP <juan@xtrarom.org>
From: Daniel Carosone <dan@geek.com.au>
List: port-xen
Date: 10/20/2005 22:15:13
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On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 11:35:01AM +0200, Juan RP wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 11:29:29 +0200
> Konrad Neuwirth <konrad@mailathome.or.at> wrote:
>=20
> > We're currently looking into getting a decently big machine to run Xen
> > on (and multiple NetBSD domains under it). Unfortunately, I'm not
> > sure that I completely understand the information about this -- does
> > it make sense to get a dual opteron based server (with an AMD chipset
> > to avoid the nVidia hassles ) for that purpose, or do we not stand a
> > chance of getting the system up and running?=20
>=20
> AFAIK Xen 2.0 does not work in AMD64. You'll have to wait until Xen 3.0
> and maybe wait some more for NetBSD to support this version.
The amd64 port of Xen is not released until 3, but I presume you can
at least run Xen in x86 32-bit mode; I'd be grateful for confirmation
of this.
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Dan.
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