On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 08:53:02PM -0500, W. Michael Petullo wrote: > I am trying trying to run a research OS named Ethos as a DomU > paravirtualized guest. Ethos does not yet support 64-bit or PAE, so I > need to build a non-PAE Dom0 kernel. I am having trouble doing this. Here > is what I tried: > > 1. Edit Michael Young's kernel.spec as follows: > > # kernel-PAE is only built on i686. > %ifarch i686 > %define with_pae 0 > %define with_up 1 > %else > %define with_pae 0 > %endif > > 2. Build an RPM using "rpmbuild -ba --target i686 --with xen --without > debuginfo kernel.spec." > > When try to boot my Dom0 kernel, Xen complains: > > (XEN) elf_xen_note_check: ERROR: Will only load images build for the > generic loader or Linux images > > Do I need to recompile Xen to go non-PAE? > > See also https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=543190, unable to > build custom i686 non-pae kernel. > Xen doesn't support non-PAE PV guests anymore. I think Xen 3.2 was the last release to support non-PAE 32bit Paravirt guests. Xen 3.4 and 4.0 definitely require 32bit PV guests to be PAE. Xen HVM guests can be non-PAE. -- Pasi -- xen mailing list xen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen
