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Re: Xen i386 PAE



Hi Stephen, hi Manuel,

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 08:06:28PM +0000, Stephen Borrill wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Feb 2009, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> >>recomendations? Or is Xen really more suited for server type stuff?
> >I admit I never tried to run X on a Xen system, all my systems have serial
> >console.

What i think might go wrong is stuff like PCI mapping etc, can Xen handle the
PCI mangling done by XFree correctly? Should i use vesafb?

> My main development machine runs Xfree86 on Xen 3/NetBSD 3.1 with 3.1, 4.0 
> and 5.0 domUs which have their DISPLAYs set to xen:0. i
> It works extremely well for me (I occasionally use Xnest too when I want a 
> wm running on the domU.

So you are running X in dom0? Using accelerated or using vesafb?

With regards,
Reinoud

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