From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Wright Subject: Re: First DomU started goes into a busy loop Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 17:30:50 +0100 Message-ID: <5061DC3A.7070704@overnetdata.com> References: <50607CCF.9050904@overnetdata.com> <506095D3.8090907@citrix.com> <1348561254.3452.103.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1348561254.3452.103.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Ian Campbell Cc: Andrew Cooper , "xen-devel@lists.xen.org" List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org 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.