[Pkg-xen-devel] i386 hypervisor seeing only ~16G RAM, amd64 required?

[Andy Smith]

Hi Ian,

Thanks for your help.

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 07:57:51AM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> Yes, a 64 bit hypervisor can run both 32 and 64 bit guests, including
> dom0, mixed and matched as you like. I run a 32on64 dom0 all the time.
> 
> I think you will need a dom0 kernel more recent than the one in Etch to
> support guests of a different width to dom0, I'm not sure when exactly
> this support was added but Lenny's kernel is certainly OK.

Does this apply even when I intend to run only 32bit guests?  i.e.
dom0 and all domUs I want to remain as 32bit for now.

Also are there any issues with pygrub?

In any case, as Bastian advises, it looks like I will use the Lenny
kernel.

Cheers,
Andy
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