From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Daniel P. Berrange" Subject: Re: Fwd: 3.0.2 domu files not working on 3.0.3 Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 22:10:48 +0000 Message-ID: <20061109221048.GI5223@redhat.com> References: <20061109190011.GD5223@redhat.com> <20061109215355.98910.qmail@web35811.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Reply-To: "Daniel P. Berrange" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061109215355.98910.qmail@web35811.mail.mud.yahoo.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: jdsw Cc: xendevel List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 01:53:54PM -0800, jdsw wrote: > My machine has PAE and xen with PAE. > > I got the domU kernel and ramdisk from one of the fedora mirror from under the xen directory. From the xend-debug.log it seems you may be right, these may not be PAE kernels. > > example site : > ftp://mirror.eas.muohio.edu/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/os/images/xen/ > > The errors in the debug file > xend-debug.log > ERROR: Unrecognized image format > ERROR: Error constructing guest OS > ERROR: Unrecognized image format > ERROR: Error constructing guest OS > > 1. how do I determine, if the kernel is PAE enabled or not. > a. when the system is running > b. when I just have the kernel files as in this case ? For Fedora the naming of the kernel tells you. The non-PAE kernels are called kernel-xenU / kernel-xen0, while the PAE kernels are kernel-xen. FC5 was non-PAE, but FC6 is PAE. Regards, Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=|