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What about x86-64 support?
I tried installing Xen in Gentoo (so I could test drive SuSE 9.2 which I still haven't tried, and maybe give FreeBSD a whirl), and although it's still not on the official portage, the one in Bugzilla is unmasked only for x86 machines. I even tried unmasking it for amd64, and while all the x86-only dependencies built just fine in amd64, xen did not.

One would think this should be a priority, since it makes more sense to have a 64 bit server/workstation with virtualization than a 32 bit desktop. And while I'm sure SuSE will get a working Xen on x86-64, there's no mention as to whether it will be a 32 bit program or 64, and I'd think if it were 32 bits that it would only be able to run 32 bit OSes.
Posted by: Michael Kelly   Posted on: 03/11/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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Nifty, but  richdave | 03/10/05
Xen is free and open source  matrixdomain | 03/10/05
Pretty Simple  Roger Ramjet | 03/11/05
Re: Pretty Simple  Andylb | 03/11/05
Yep  Roger Ramjet | 03/11/05
VMware DOES require changes  rdwhitti | 03/11/05
never had to patch my kernel  doh123 | 03/11/05
I think you did...  rdwhitti | 03/11/05
It's not a kernel patch  Michael Kelly | 03/11/05
Thanks for the clarification. (NT)  rdwhitti | 03/11/05
What about x86-64 support?  Michael Kelly | 03/11/05
That is correct  nucrash | 03/11/05
I should have mentioned it...  Michael Kelly | 03/11/05
One what?  nucrash | 03/11/05
Gah I'm too lazy today!  Michael Kelly | 03/11/05
That's OK  nucrash | 03/11/05
Michael  Linux User 147560 | 03/11/05
The issue is  Michael Kelly | 03/11/05
Gotcha!  Linux User 147560 | 03/11/05
The Gentoo issue  Michael Kelly | 03/11/05

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