[Pkg-xen-devel] Big machines support by Debian Xen

[Roberto C. Sanchez]

On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 11:58:20PM +0300, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote:
> Hello people.
> 
> I'm going to maintain a setup of several "big-resource" machines
> (>= 4 CPUs, >=8 Gb of ram), which should host large number of "small" 
> systems in xen domains.
> 
> As far as I understand, using "big machines" is not currently possible 
> within debian xen packages, because there is no kernel with pae support to 
> use in domain 0, which in turn forces to use non-pae supervisor, which 
> makes most of system memory unavailable.
> 
Sorry if this seems dumb, but why a 4+ CPU machine with 8+ GB RAM but
not 64-bit?  I can understand if you are dealing with already existing
machines, but for a new acquisition your requirements just scream out
for an amd64 setup.

Regards,

-Roberto

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Roberto C. Sanchez
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