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Re: [Xen-devel] Vanilla Linux 64-bit paravirt guest support

To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Vanilla Linux 64-bit paravirt guest support
From: Michael Abd-El-Malek <mabdelmalek@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:14:36 -0400
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
Michael Abd-El-Malek wrote:
Can someone tell me what the status of 64-bit paravirtualization support is in the vanilla Linux tree? It seems that 2.6.24 only has 32-bit PV support. And it seems that 2.6.25 will be getting 64-bit PV support. Will it be complete?

No, 2.6.25 will not have 64-bit Xen support. I'm hoping it will be ready for .26.

Is 64-bit domU support available anywhere at the moment? For example, what is the status of the git://git.et.redhat.com/xen-pvops-64.git tree? I pulled that tree and tried building 64-bit Xen domU support (since this tree allows you to configure the kernel with that capability, unlike the vanilla Linux tree). But compilation failed in enlighten.c because xen_smp_ops isn't defined in x86_64.

On a related note: is it possible to compile the PV network/block drivers for a HVM Linux guest with the newest kernels? Compilation failed and a previous message on the list says that you can't do that. The reason I'd want to do this is to let me run a 64-bit recent Linux kernel with PV drivers.

No, we don't support that for the moment, though it would be a useful thing to have.

Is there a reason this wouldn't work, or is it just "scripting changes" that need to be done?

Thanks,
Mike

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