Re: xen 3.2x support

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

On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 10:15:42AM -0500, John Hayward wrote:
> >>>>Thanks to Christoph we have Xen 3.3 support in pkgsrc now, and
> >>>>a -current XEN3_DOM0 kernel runs on top of it.
> >>>
> >>>Booting the latest Xen 3.3 it says:
> >>>Mismatch between XEN and DOM0 kernel
> >>
> >>If you use a 32bit hypervisor, your dom0 kernel must be a 32bit pae 
> >>kernel.
> >
> >You mean the xenkernel33 builds a 32bitPAE Xen kernel ? That's a
> >problem, because NetBSd doesn't have a 32bitPAE dom0 kernel ...
> How soon will NetBSD likely have a 32bitPAE dom0 kernel?

AFAIK nobody is working on it.
> 
> I am ordering a machine and the standard is an intell processor but if it

All current Intel processor can run amd64. I'm currently running
NetBSD/amd64 on various Xeon and core2 models.

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