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> > This is not meant to be a performance improvement. It is meant to enable
> > a standard distro kernel configured without PARAVIRT to be able to run
> > as a HVM guest using the pv-drivers.
>  
> This is not a convincing explanation.  Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora seems
> to be able to cope with it just fine.

No they are not. The 32-bit Fedora Core 21 LiveISO is non-PAE. I think the
same situation was with Ubuntu.
> 
> Why do you want to do that, even though it will cause a performance
> regression and a maintenance pain?  You haven't provided a reason yet.