Re: [Xen-users] Hypervisor kernel confusion

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Eric Ross <eross@xxxxxxx> writes:

> I'm a bit confused about the kernel used by the Xen hypervisor.  I've
> just installed a 30 day trial of XenSource's Enterprise edition
> software on a Sun Fire 4600.
>
> It was my understanding that it would install a 64 bit hypervisor,
> however, upon running uname -a on my machine, I am told that I am
> running a i686 kernel.  Did I miss something?  How does one use a 64
> bit kernel?
>
> Thanks,
> -Eric

Look at "xm info":

machine                : x86_64
xen_caps               : xen-3.0-x86_64 hvm-3.0-x86_32 hvm-3.0-x86_32p 
hvm-3.0-x86_64

I believe only a 64bit hypervisor will list x86_64 under "xen_caps".
If so you can start a 64bit kernel just like a 32bit kernel. Just put
it in /boot and use it.

MfG
        Goswin

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