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Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] Large memory support

To: Piotr Siwczak <psiwczak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, xen-ia64-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] Large memory support
From: Tristan Gingold <Tristan.Gingold@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 13:22:26 +0200
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Le Lundi 24 Juillet 2006 12:40, Piotr Siwczak a écrit :
> Hi,
> I've recently started to set up xen on one of my itanium servers. The
> domains boot smoothly with only one thing being "salt-in-the-eye:.
>
> I cannot assign  more than about 700MB to all my machines. My node has
> 2Gb of RAM in total.
> I found on mailing lists, that you should enable high memory support in
> the kernel's config. This should be located in "Processor type and
> features" tab
> in "make menuconfig". I cannot find this option for itanium. I tried to
> enable the "Virtual mem map" for both domO and domU with no luck.
> Can anyone help me with this?
Recent versions of Xen support sparse memory.
Which version are you using ?
What is the result of 'xm info' from dom0 ?

NB: I was able to run Xen on a 48GB machine! Xen recognized all the memory.

Tristan.

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