[Fedora-xen] Are 64bit Intel Core 2 Quad fedora 8 supported?

[George Refseth]

On Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:39:55 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange  
<berrange at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 04:34:52PM +0100, George Refseth wrote:
>> It seems I got little attention with my original post.
>> The f8 64bit image hangs when starting X. Prior to that
>> the visual 'wait' circle keeps running around irregularily
>> at a lot than normal speed.
>>
>> I observed the same on multi core AMD running RHEL 4, which
>> was cured with RHEL 5. So no I am happy on that multi-core
>> workstation.
>>
>> But this new server I was trying to set up had definite problems
>> with the -21 xen kernel. It runs flawlessly with the f8 release
>> kernel (-23).
>>
>> For testing, where should I pull down a newer xen-kernel that would
>> run with a full 64 bit f8 install? I would be happy to be a guinea pig
>> (as long as I can revert) using this system if I could be pointed to
>> repositories and forum where I could contribute..
>
> I'm afraid the 2.6.21  series of kernel-xen will be the newest
> we release for F-8 and earlier - its in bugfix only mode[1]. If there
> is an easy bugfix we can do for 2.6.21 to make it work that's a
> possiblity but we won't be doing .22 or .23 kernel-xen. I'd recommend
> filing a BZ ticket with as many details of the problem you are seeing
> as possible:

Thanks for a quick response, even if it doesn't really help me.
The system also won't boot in i386 mode with the latest BIOS, so I will
run non-virtualized 64 bit for testing purposes until you have a testable
xen enabled kernel for -25 (?) available and forgo the bug report.

Thanks again,
George


>
>   http://bugzilla.redhat.com/
>
> Regards,
> Dan.
>
> [1] This is because in Fedora-9 we are radically changing the way we
>     approach Xen kernels
>     http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/XenPvops
>
>



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