[Fedora-xen] Removing PAE support in kernel-xen

[Karl J South]

Hi,

On 6/15/07, Johan De Wit <johan.dewit at external.thalesaleniaspace.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I want to use xen and the virtualisation tools provided in FC7.  This
> will be running on my laptop, which has no PAE support, since the max
> ram = 2GB.

I'm in the same situation and just wanted to wish you good luck with
this project and kindly ask you to make the necessary changes
available in one way or another to everyone else that is in the same
situation.

> I already rebuilded the kerne-xen package, and removed pae support.
>
> kernel-xen.spec line 94
>
> %ifarch i686
> %define buildpae 0
> %define builddebug 0
> # we build always xen HV with pae
> %define xen_flags verbose=y crash_debug=y    <--- change this line,
> remove the pae bit
> %endif
>
> And in SOURCES/kernel-2.6.20-i686-xen.config at the end
>
> # CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set
> CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y
>
> But when installing an new xen guest with virt-manager, this doesn't
> work.  I've setup a local repo, and now i'm looking to get rid of the
> pae stuff that is builtin the <pathtorepo>/images/xen/[vmlinuz|
> initrd.img]
>
> Overwriting the vmlinuz with the kernel I rebuild with the above steps
> doesnt't work well.
>
> Searching the web didn't get me to a solution.
>
> Could someone please direct me to a solution ?  I've looked into
> anaconda, revision etc, but still cannot figure out how to fix my
> problem.
>
> Thanks
>
> Johan

/kjs