On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 02:34:39PM -0700, Luke S. Crawford wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> >>However, my question is what would happen if I add more memory to the
> >>machine. I.e. if I boost it to 8GB would I still only get 3.25GB for
> >>Xen or would I get 7.25GB not having to bother about the hole in the
> >>middle?
> >
> >NetBSD/Xen is still 32bits, so it's limited to 4GB.
> 
> Hosting providers want to run NetBSD XenUs on either 32-bit PAE or 64-bit 
> Xen Dom0s;  quite often, it doesn't make much sense to split up a box with 
> less than 4GB ram.
> 
> Are there plans to make NetBSD-xen work on 64-bit platforms?

This was proposed as a GSOC project, but unfortunably wasn't accepted :(
I'll probably work on this myself this summer.

> 
> alternately, I have read  the 32-PAE on 64 support for Xen 3.0.5 is 
> supposed to be nice;  any word if that will support 32 non-PAE guests? 

I don't think it will. But you can always run NetBSD/i386 in an HVM guest :)

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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