Re: PAE/non-PAE Xen kernel

[Christoph Egger <Christoph_Egger%gmx.de@localhost>]

On 25.12.09 22:29, Jean-Yves Migeon wrote:
> On 12/25/09 21:30, Étienne wrote:
>> Hello list, and merry Christmas,
>>
>> I'm trying to set up a Dom0 host with NetBSD-5.0.1 and Xen from the
>> 2009Q3 pkgsrc. The machine is an "old" AMD Athlon, and while booting I
>> get a panic from Xen (that I have just 5 sec to read) about a mismatch
>> between Xen kernel and Dom0 kernel on PAE capabilities ? It looks like
>> the one described there:
>> http://old.nabble.com/Problem-with-PAE-less-processor-in-xen-3.1.0-td15396918.html
>>
>>
>> If I get it right, I need to build a Xen kernel without PAE support.
>> How do I do that in pkgsrc ? And by the way, is there any way to keep
>> Xen from rebooting at this point so you can read what exactly happens ?
>>
>> Thanks for your interest in my question.
> 
> Yeah, this clearly needs to be documented.
> 
> Current state for NetBSD:
> NetBSD-4: no PAE for dom0 and domU
> NetBSD-5: PAE only for domU
> NetBSD-current: PAE for dom0 and domU

PAE for dom0 has been backported to NetBSD-5 but not to 5.0.x

Christoph