Bug#414471: [Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#414471: xen-hypervisor-3.0.3-1-i386-pae: small bug in package description

[Sander Marechal]

Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 09:47:24AM +0100, Ralph Passgang wrote:
>> On the other hand, the most recent debian kernel are pae kernels and so you 
>> have to use the pae hypervisor to use xen. If you want to use a non-pae 
>> hypervisor & kernel, you have to compile it yourself (or switch back to 
>> 2.6.18-3).
>>
> I am willing to bet that this is the problem that Sander is having.

That's very likely. I indeed use the 2.6.18-4-xen kernel.

> Perhaps the documentation should state something along the lines of "if
> you have a PAE-enabled *kernel* (whether or not your system has or
> supports more than 4 GB RAM), then you need the pae-hypervisor".
> Alternatively, if PAE-enabled is now the default for Debian stock
> kernels, then perhaps the default Xen packages should be PAE-enabled and
> then there could be variants which are suffixed non-pae for people who
> roll their own non-PAE kernels.

I saw that the xen-linux-system packages already depends on the PAE
hypervisor, but I always make it a habit to read over the dependencies
of a package before installing. That's when I read the 4Gb RAM remark
and decided to install xen-utils and xen-hypervisor (the non-PAE
version) separately instead.

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Sander Marechal