Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost> writes: > On Fri, Mar 06, 2015 at 08:54:23PM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote: >> >> I tried to run anita on a xen 4.1 dom0 which is i386. I got errors as >> described: >> >> http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-bugs/2009-04/msg02299.html >> >> so my current theory is that i386 dom0 can run only i386 domUs. Running >> i386 domUs seems to work. >> >> Before I document this in the HOWTO, do others concur? Is anyone able >> to run an amd64 domU on an i386 dom0? Did this used to work in older >> xen? > > It depends on the hypervisor. > I think an amd64 hypervisor with a i386PAE dom0 should work (at last > in theory) but I think I never tried it. Then it should be able to > run amd64 domUs. > an i386PAE hypervisor can only run i386PAR dom0 or domUs So when on an i386 one builds pkgsrc/sysutils/xenkernelXY, one gets an "i386 hypervisor", which is a xen.gz which runs in i386 mode? And you are saying that if the xen.gz from an amd64 package is installed on a i386 dom0, that might/should work, both to run, and to allow amd64 domUs?
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