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After 10 years of FreeBSD fun, i started out with Debian because of the
excellent HP software support on it and Xen support which FreeBSD lacks
bigtime.
I'm pretty happy with the result, but i'm getting really frustrated by
my Xen installation.
In the domU i am going to run an OpenFiler image, which is bound to
i386-nonPAE-smp-xenU
The i386 part is no problem, but non-PAE means disabling high-memory
support in a custom kernel as there aren't any non-PAE kernels anymore
in Debian Etch.

Using apt-get to install a xen image and hypervisor won't work, so i
tried compiling my own kernel. After a lot of hard work (i'm used to
FreeBSD), i managed to compile my kernel but it's rather flaky.

Can someone precisely tell me what steps i need to take for compiling a
non-PAE i386 kernel for use with Debian dom0?

I used the wiki on http://strugglers.net/wiki/User:Andy/Xen as a howto,
but i end up in a non-bootable kernel.

Sorry for the ignorance. Google gives me 1000's of results, but i need
to have a hint that really works for my situation.

Remco Bressers

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Xen dom0 non-PAE kernel frustrations

Submitted by Bill Thompson on Fri, 2007-08-31 17:00.

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On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 22:40:26 +0200
Remco Bressers wrote:

> Using apt-get to install a xen image and hypervisor won't work, so i
> tried compiling my own kernel. After a lot of hard work (i'm used to
> FreeBSD), i managed to compile my kernel but it's rather flaky.

I have just started working on a Xen project myself. I was able to
install a Xen kernel and hypervisor on Etch (stable) by installing the
"xen-linux-system-2.6.18-5-xen-686" package.

Take a look at
http://www.howtoforge.com/debian_etch_xen_from_debian_repository.
Although this how-to does not cover the "xen-linux-system" package, it
is a more up-to-date Debian how-to.
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Xen dom0 non-PAE kernel frustrations

Submitted by Remco Bressers on Fri, 2007-08-31 18:00.

Bill Thompson wrote:
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> On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 22:40:26 +0200
> Remco Bressers wrote:
>
>> Using apt-get to install a xen image and hypervisor won't work, so i
>> tried compiling my own kernel. After a lot of hard work (i'm used to
>> FreeBSD), i managed to compile my kernel but it's rather flaky.
>
> I have just started working on a Xen project myself. I was able to
> install a Xen kernel and hypervisor on Etch (stable) by installing the
> "xen-linux-system-2.6.18-5-xen-686" package.
>
> Take a look at
> http://www.howtoforge.com/debian_etch_xen_from_debian_repository.
> Although this how-to does not cover the "xen-linux-system" package, it
> is a more up-to-date Debian how-to.

Thanks, but i have been there and had the whole thing working, but i
NEED a non-PAE kernel. My hardware supports it, but the domU image
doesn't accept a PAE dom0. (i guess that's the correct explanation).

r.

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