Re: recommendations for a Xen/NetBSD box?

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 13:12:23 +1100
Carl Brewer <carl%bl.echidna.id.au@localhost> wrote:

> Luke S Crawford wrote:
> > Carl Brewer <carl%bl.echidna.id.au@localhost> writes:
> >> So if you were going to build a Xen server to host a NetBSD 4.0
> >> (i386) production (ie: must be stable!) DomU and a couple of
> >> others as development/play domU's, what would you suggest as the
> >> Dom0 and what version of Xen should I be looking at?
> > 
> > Your trouble is NetBSD/i386 -stable only runs in non-PAE mode (if
> > you are cool with -current, there is PAE support for DomU)   and the
> > PAE mode of the Dom0 and the DomU must match.
> 
> Dumb question, PAE means exactly?  Is there an FAQ I need to go
> through before I ask any more? :)
> 
I believe it's something like Physical Address Extension.  Roughly
speaking, it lets you have more than 32 bits of phyiscal memory, even
on a 32-bit i386.


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb