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Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] x86 guest Xen domains on IA64

To: Rafal Lichwala <syriusz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] x86 guest Xen domains on IA64
From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 06:23:52 -0600
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On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 10:58 +0200, Rafal Lichwala wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is it possible to install Xen on IA64 machine and then use x86 (ia32) 
> OS's as guest domains?

   Xen/ia64 only supports ia64 guests.  There's a paper on a research
investigation to support ia32 guests on ia64 here:

http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2007/HPL-2007-77.html

Thanks,

        Alex

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Alex Williamson                             HP Open Source & Linux Org.


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