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Re: [Xen-users] How to compile a 32bit kernel on 64bit Dom0

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] How to compile a 32bit kernel on 64bit Dom0
From: nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Nick Craig-Wood)
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 17:05:22 +0100
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Holger <Age_M@xxxxxx> wrote:
>  Holger schrieb:
> > I recently switched to Gentoo 2007.0 + Xen3.1.0 in 64bit. Everything 
> > works like a charm, I even can install WindowsXP with HVM. BUT:
> > I have some old DomUs and want to start them, but I guess the problem 
> > is, that these are 32bit domU and the kernel I'm trying these domUs to 
> > start with, is 64bit. Does anyone know, how to compile a 32bit kernel 
> > on my 64bit system!? normaly I do make menuconfig, then make && make 
> > modules_install. Is there any option I can add to make?
>
>  Looks like this issue was no 32bit / 64bit question. The kernel-panic 
>  was caused by 'cpufreq' which I thought was disabled. Now I have a 32bit 
>  domU running with a 64bit kernel. Looks like there is no problem
>  :-D

It is fine provided your 32bit kernels are compiled with PAE.  If they
aren't then they won't start (as far as I remember).

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Nick Craig-Wood <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick

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