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RE: [Xen-users] Host and guest architecture compatibility

To: "Fajar A. Nugraha" <fajar@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-users] Host and guest architecture compatibility
From: "Ferreira, N.L." <N.L.Ferreira@xxxxx>
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 12:30:24 +0100
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Hi Fajar,

I *must* work with the latest version of SL 4.x (presently 4.7), I cannot avoid it. This is due to grid middleware requisites and technical support, otherwise I'm on my own to put grid services working.

So if I understood correctly from your post, a i386 domU running one of the latest RHEL like kernels, works fine on top of a x86_64 dom0. Thus, SL47 i386 domU will not probably run !!

Since I'm not at all proficient on kernel business, in order to avoid further problems probably I should stick to a i386 dom0.

My idea was to have these new servers running x86_64 on dom0, in case I'll need it in the future.

Cheers,
N.





2009/3/21 Ferreira, N.L. <N.L.Ferreira@xxxxx>:
> I was trying to install a para-virtualized domU of a linux distro (SL i386)
> using virt-install, but was not successful. My dom0 is centOS 5.2 x86_64.
>
> After a night of sleep, I remember reading somewhere (probably in this
> mailing list) that a PV i386 domU is not compatible running on top of a
> x86_64 dom0.
>
> Just to be sure (already prepared 5 servers with x64 as dom0's), can someone
> confirm if this is still a problem?

>>It works, but only in later versions of RHEL/Centos/SL (5.0 won't
>>work, 5.2 should work). You might need to get newer domU kernel. Are
>>you still using SL 5.0?

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