[Pkg-xen-devel] Big machines support by Debian Xen

[Guido Trotter]

On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 11:58:20PM +0300, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote:

Hi!

> As far as I understand, using "big machines" is not currently possible 
> within debian xen packages, because there is no kernel with pae support to 
> use in domain 0, which in turn forces to use non-pae supervisor, which 
> makes most of system memory unavailable.
> 

If what you're missing is a linux kernel compiled for pae that's a kernel not a
pkg-xen issue... 

> I'd like to ask what is debian xen team's current position on providing 
> support for "big machines". Is debian xen team interested in such support?
> 

We'd currently like to support it and we provide the pae hypervisor... The
missing link is in the kernel team... In the meantime you could use debian xen's
packages and build your own kernels and maybe check with the kernel team about
why they are not provide...

Regards,

Guido