[Pkg-xen-devel] no Xen packages for i386

[Gabriel Filion]

On 28/10/15 08:31 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-10-27 at 16:27 -0400, Gabriel Filion wrote:
>> I just saw this morning after mistakenly installing the -amd64 packages
>> on a 32bit machine, that the i386 packages had disappeared from debian
>> from jessie onwards.
> 
> There is no i386 hypervisor upstream any more (since Xen 4.3) and hence
> no more xen-hypervisor-*-i386 packages in Debian Jessie onwards.

I see.. that's what I was expecting

> However the i386 tools still exist (e.g. [0]) and can be used with the
> xen-hypervisor-*-amd64 package[1] (or via the metapackage[2]) with an
> i386 kernel+userspace in a "32on64" configuration.

> [0] https://packages.debian.org/jessie/i386/xen-utils-4.4/download
> [1] https://packages.debian.org/jessie/i386/xen-hypervisor-4.4-amd64/download
> [2] https://packages.debian.org/jessie/i386/xen-system-amd64/download

but iiuc 32 bit machines can't run the hypervisor anymore so a 32on64
setup doesn't apply to them. it does however explain to me why the
-amd64 version of the hypervisor packages are present on the i386
architecture.

thanks a bunch for the feedback! much appreciated

-- 
Gabriel Filion

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