Re: Kernel selection on i386 for Xen compatibility

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> writes:

> Hi guys,
>
> In order to support running the installer in a Xen guest it is necessary
> to install a PAE (686-bigmem) kernel if the hypervisor is either PAE or
> 64 bit. It is possible to write a little utility which will query the
> hypervisor for this information but it seem like it would be easier to
> simply key off the mode the installer is running PAE or not.

Since when is there a xen non-PAE kernel again? The xen kernel was
switched from non-PAE to PAE because of lack in upstream support for
non-PAE in the past.

MfG
        Goswin