Re: First DomU started goes into a busy loop

[Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>]

On 25/09/12 17:30, Anthony Wright wrote:
> On 25/09/2012 09:20, Ian Campbell wrote:
>> (putting Anthony back on the CC)
>>
>> On Mon, 2012-09-24 at 18:18 +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote:
>>> 32bit builds of Xen have been removed from 4.3.  As far as I am aware,
>>> there has been no serious effort to maintain them.  I highly suggest
>>> using a 64bit Xen.
>> Anthony's references to 32-bit all seem to be in the context of the
>> Linux kernel.
>>
>> Just to be clear we have removed support for the 32-bit hypervisor only.
>> We have not and will not be removing support for 32-bit (PAE) PV
>> domains, running as either guest or dom0 on a 64-bit hypervisor. 32-bit
>> HVM guests, with or without PAE enabled, also remain fully supported.
>>
>> Ian.
>>
> Could you give me some pointers regarding building a 64 bit Xen
> hypervisor on a 32 bit linux system, or do I need to build it on a 64
> bit system?
>
> I've found the XEN_TARGET_ARCH setting in the makefile which looks like
> setting it to x86_64 might be the right direction, but I'm trying to
> determine if there's an "official" way of doing it.
>
> thanks,
>
> Anthony.

That is indeed the official way of doing it, with an optional
CROSS_COMPILE= prefix if your system gcc can only do 32bit.

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