[Fedora-xen] re: Heads-up: Requiring PAE for running Xen

[James Morris]

Jeremy wrote:

> As we move forward with Xen enablement, there's a desire for
> being able to access more than 4 gigs of RAM on 32-bit Xen hosts.  The
> options for handling this are
> 1) Another kernel.  This is bad due to 
>    a) we're running out of CD space already
>    b) keeping things matched up between the HV and the guest kernels
>    c) migration is worlds of pain with two types of kernels


What about leaving the non-pae kernel out of the core distro and 
distributing it online only via extras?

And document (b) and (c) as known issues which need to be evaluated 
carefully by users before installation.



- James
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James Morris
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