https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=732424
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=732424#c7
--- Comment #7 from James Fehlig
(In reply to comment #4)
(In reply to comment #3)
Jason, can Xen be used as virtualization host on 32-bit machines?
We no longer support 32-bit xen. 64-bit xen + 64-bit dom0 and 64-bit xen + 32-bit dom0 are the only supported configurations.
Wow, I am stunned. I would have to believe that there are many 32-bit systems out there like mine that will need to move away from openSuse to some other alternative. Can you answer the following:
Heh, you are the first person I've heard in a long time virtualizing on a 32-bit system. AFAIK, openSUSE was the last distro supporting a 32-bit Xen host, so I'm not sure there are supported alternatives.
1. How can we get openSuse to reconsider this decision?
Discuss it with the community I suppose. Perhaps on opensuse-virtual or opensuse-factory mailing lists.
2. Is KVM virtualization supported for 32-bit systems that require para virtualization?
No.
3. What is the last version of openSuse that did support 32-bit XEN and how to I go about obtaining one of those earlier versions?
11.4 supported 32-bit xen host, although I'm not aware of anyone using it. You can get 11.4 from http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.4/
I might also add that I read through the release notes, etc., and could not find any mention that Xen was not supported on 32-bit systems. If this is accurate, clearly this should be documented somewhere. I spent a lot of time trying to setup a new system not knowing that what I was trying to do was not possible since it I couldn't find it documented anywhere.
Agreed that it would be nice to have statement in the release notes or such that states 32-bit Xen host is no longer supported. This is clearly stated in the SLES11 SP2 release notes. I know that mailing lists aren't the best way to _announce_ such deprecated functionality, but Jan did note our intentions back in July - http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-virtual/2011-07/msg00000.html -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.