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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Subject: Re: compiling a non-pae dom0 on a dell r710 with too
	much	ram
Date: Thu, 06 May 2010 16:35:32 -0700
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On 05/06/2010 04:00 PM, Mike Sun wrote:
> I've got a brand spankin new dell r710 with loads of memory on it,
> except that I really want it to behave more like an older machine with
> only 4G of RAM.  I've been trying to compile a dom0 without PAE for it
> and can't seem to have much success.  I've constantly modified the
> kernel config to turn off PAE and it either gets clobbered when I do a
> make build-linux-2.6.18 or something.  Any ideas?
>   

Xen doesn't support non-PAE 32 bit PV operation.  If you want to limit
memory, boot with dom0_mem=4G, and turn off HIGHMEM.

    J