Xen bigmem SMP

[Jose R R]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 11:54 AM, John J. Culkin <culkinj3 at scranton.edu>wrote:

> What kernel would I use if I wanted to use Xen on a server with more then
> 4GB of ram and 2 processors?
>
> Can the Xen kernel handle this?
>

Yes, it can.

Prior to 64-bit release of Xen hypervisor (that is, before the summer of
2007), the 32bit-PAE version of Xen allowed the use of up to 16GB of memory.

You can leverage up to 128GB of memory with a current 64-bit Xen modified
GNU/Linux kernel.

Hope the info is useful.

Jose R Rodriguez
http://www.metztli-it.com