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Fw: [Xen-devel] more than 16 GB in a 32 Bit dom0


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  • From: "Daniel Bauer" <mlist@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 12:42:42 +0100
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  • Delivery-date: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 03:44:25 -0800
  • List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xensource.com>

From: "Ian Campbell"
On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 11:32 +0000, Daniel Bauer wrote:
From: "Ian Campbell"
> On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 10:42 +0000, Daniel Bauer wrote:
>> From: "Keir Fraser"
>> > On 08/02/2011 07:27, "Daniel Bauer" <mlist@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> I've read in many posts, that XEN limits the 32 bit PAE kernel >> >> to
>> >> 16
>> >> GB
>> >> RAM, but I don't find were to enable more. Starting linux >> >> without
>> >> XEN
>> >> shows the whole memory. Is there still no solution?
>> >>
>> >> I don't have the possibility to upgrade the server to 64 bit.
>> >
>> > Then no.
>>
>> maybe a silly question, but who sets this limit? IMHO xen, because >> a
>> "normal" bigmem kernel accepts upto 64 GB RAM. Is there really no
>> switch
>> to increase the RAM under a 32 bit kernel?
>
> The limitation is due to the 32 bit hypervisor, not the kernel.

I know, but I don't find the switch to configure more RAM than 16 GB. I thought that XEN limits it to 16 GB and I could change it and recompile
everything.

There is no switch, 16GB is a fundamental limitation of the 32 bit
hypervisor.

ok, thanks a lot for thinking about my problem.

Have a nice day
Daniel

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