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Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] New shadow paging code

At 14:24 +0100 on 15 Aug (1155651854), Tim Deegan wrote:
> > I could not bring up any x86_64 domains. When I tried a SLES10 x86_64
> > image I got a message saying "Your CPU does not support long mode. Use a
> > 32-bit distribution"
> 
> I'll look into that; sounds like the results of CPUID are confusing the
> linux kernel.

Since you were hitting a bug with pae=1, I assume that error happened
with pae=0?  In that case it's not surprising: x86_64 linux requires PAE
support (among other things) to boot, and "Your CPU does not support
long mode" is its generic response to not finding a required feature.

Tim.

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