[Fedora-xen] PAE *is* now required for Xen [was re: Heads-up: ... ]

[Andy Burns]

Dave Jones wrote:

> On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 10:49:03PM +0200, Antonio Vargas wrote:
> 
>  > >2) Switch the 32-bit xen kernels to require PAE.  For most "current"
>  > >non-laptop hardware, this is a non-issue.  It does mean that xen won't
>  > >work a lot of earlier PentiumM laptops
>  > 
>  > xen always needed p6 hardware (didnt run on k6-II for example),
>  > and AFAIK p6 supports PAE always, so not any lose here i think
> 
> Sadly, not the case..
> Celerons, and some Pentium-M's (as Jeremy noted above) are
> P6 class, yet lack PAE.

Ouch, this just bit my Dell D800 Pentium M 1.3GHz :-(

Obviously there haven't been Xen kernels available for a while, the 
previous one I had was 2.6.17-1.2307_FC6xen which worked for me, now 
I've updated to 2.6.17-1.2462.fc6xen and can't boot due to lack of PAE, 
presumably this does at least mean fc6t2 is "real close now" ...

I was already considering upgrading to a D820 to get HVM capability once 
the merom CPUs hit the shelves, I guess this will provide additional 
impetus ...