Description of problem: Unable to run non-linux guests paravirtualized Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6xen How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. Download Opensolaris or OpenBSD guest image 2. Do "xm create ..." and watch /var/log/xen/xend-debug.log 3. Be disappointed by the fact that you can only run paravirtualized Linux Actual results: Non Linux guest will probably never run virtualized Expected results: The full functionality of paravirtualization Additional info:
And non-PAE won't support larger memory configurations. We're stuck between a rock and a hard place here. PAE is the current choice and this will not change. You can easily build a non-pae version from source if you wish.
Created attachment 144342 [details] Patch for kernel src.rpm to build a non-PAE kernel with xen.
The submitted patch helps to build a non-PAE kernel from source. As said: It's easy, but it takes a while to do it right as building kernels takes a long time on my system. So for convenience of the interrested... the patch.