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Re: [Xen-users] Xen-Kernel detects just 3.2GB Ram on a 64Bit Debian

To: Roman Konz <drummermonkey@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Xen-Kernel detects just 3.2GB Ram on a 64Bit Debian
From: Stephan Seitz <s.seitz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 18:24:53 +0200
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Hi Roman,

We had similar problems with recent Supermicro Boards after installing
huge amounts of RAM.
The problems disappeared on all machines after we made BIOS updates.
Only issue was to find the right BIOS image, since Supermicro offered
a bunch of images labelled with the same version but with different
release dates.

Greetings

Stephan


Roman Konz schrieb:
> Hi Peter,
> 
> i have tried XEN 3.0.4 which is shipped with debian itself.
> Then i've tried to install the official binary package of XEN 3.1,
> and it gave the same error.
> Compiling XEN 3.1&its shipped Kernel also don't work.
> 
> I'm not sure, but I think it must be an error in the XEN Kernel.
> The same version (2.6.18) compiled without XEN support works fine with
> 8G of memory.
> 
> Now i have tried the evaluation of XEN Enterprise - same error.
> A Hardware-Failure is not possible because i have tried it on 2 (same
> Hardare) Computers.
> Is it possible, that the XEN-Patch does not support our Hardware?
> 
> Thanks a lot
> 
> Greets,
> Roman Konz
> 
> 
> 2007/8/2, Peter Peltonen <peter.peltonen@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 8/2/07, Roman Konz <drummermonkey@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> If I boot the XEN Kernel, Linux shows me just 3,2GB RAM, but if I
>>> reboot into the Debian standard Kernel, the memory is detected
>>> correctly.
>>>
>>> I don't know what to try next, so I hope you can help me :-)
>> I have similiar problem on 32bit CentOS5 and 6gb of RAM: with
>> kernel-PAE all memory is indeed recognized, but with kernel-xen not
>> (which has PAE support also).
>>
>> But AFAIK 64bit OS should "just" work and see all your memory. Which
>> debian version / xen packages do you have installed?
>>
>> I will try next installing the 64bit version of CentOS5 and see if
>> that makes a difference in my own case.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Peter
>>
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