[Pkg-xen-devel] XenServer and Debian 5.0 64 bit guest

[Ian Campbell]

On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 16:22 +0200, George Chavdarov wrote:
> Hello,
> we start to look for virtualization purposes XenServer wich states to
> support Debian 5.0 but only for 32 bit guest, and there is no 64 bit
> guest support.
> As from Citrix XenServer team information this is problem of Debian
> kernel.

It's not a problem with the kernel as such.

The issue here is that the Debian installer does not include a variant
which uses a Xen-compatible kernel which is in turn because there was no
support in the pvops kernel for 64 bit the 2.6.26 which is what Lenny
uses.

> Is there any chans this situation to be fixed ?

This is fixed already in Squeeze.

The nature of the changes is such that backporting to Lenny is extremely
unlikely.

Ian.
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