> > I installed FC6 and FC7 and the limit exists on both even though > FC7 > > was supposed to be using a 64bit hypervisor which supports 32bit > guests > > (which isn't the case). > > WorksForMe[tm]. Test box with a bunch of systems installed, among > them > fedora7 32bit and fedora7 64bit. Booting the 32bit fedora dom0 with > the > 64bit hypervisor (aka /boot/xen.gz-<version>) from the 64bit > installation works just fine. > > If you got it right "xm dmesg" looks like this: > [ ... ] > (XEN) Xen kernel: 64-bit, lsb, compat32 > (XEN) Dom0 kernel: 32-bit, PAE, lsb, paddr 0xc1000000 -> 0xc15e2000 > [ ... ] > > The limitation is that the dom0 kernel backend drivers don't support > 32-on-64, so you can't mix 32bit and 64bit domains. As long as dom0 > and > all guests are identical it works. > > cheers, > Gerd > I've tried this before. I installed FC7 32bit and replaced the xen.gz with its 64bit version. Sure, it boots fine but when I try to boot up/install a 32bit guest, the guest just hangs or pauses and will not run even though the dom0 seems to be working just fine. Marco Jorge -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen
