Bug#424759: linux-image-2.6.18-4-xen-686: Please build both PAE and non-PAE kernels for Xen

[Teodor <mteodor@Gmail.com>]

On 5/17/07, Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> wrote:
> On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 11:20:26AM +0400, Max Dmitrichenko wrote:
> > Using PAE kernels and hypervisor is required for big virtualizing servers.
> > But non-PAE kernels are also required by developers, students and other
> > people who use Xen on their desktop boxes to do OS research, multiplatform
> > development and so on. Providing only PAE kernel disables the ability to
> > run at least NetBSD and OpenSolaris, may be some other OSes too.
>
> > Please, build also the non-PAE kernels in the future.
>
> IMHO this bug should be wontfixed.  We already provide binary kernel images
> for an excessive number of flavors; it's unrealistic to think that we would
> be able to provide prepackaged images for all possible use cases, the
> important thing is to provide images that are usable on all target
> /hardware/, and if a user needs more specific options afterwards that's why
> we have linux-tree and linux-source packages.


One search for "xen-hypervisor" on the Debian packages gives:

xen-hypervisor-3.0.3-1-amd64
xen-hypervisor-3.0.3-1-i386
xen-hypervisor-3.0.3-1-i386-pae

This means that there is a non-PAE version already available (read the
package description).

Note: using the non-PAE version gives a kernel panic on my system.
I've read the Fedora HOWTO on XEN and it states that XEN 3 requires
PAE to be enabled!!