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From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com>
Subject: Re: Hang when starting a 256GB PV guest.
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2010 09:55:26 +0100
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>>> On 09.07.10 at 10:44, xiaowei hu <xiaowei.hu@oracle.com> wrote:
> I was using xen 3.4.0 ,32bit dom0 to do some test on a 1TB memory
> system.When tring to boot a 256GB PV guest(both EL4 and EL5),it just
> hang after the domain builder completed it work.
>=20
> Is it tested for 256GB PV guest? Anyone ever do this successfully? And
> any suggestions?

Doing this with a 32-bit Dom0 seems odd at best, but it should
(theoretically) work. Do you see the same with a 64-bit Dom0?
Did you analyze where the guests hang (i.e. whether their kernel
has an issue with that amount of memory)?

Jan