Re: [Xen-users] Problem compiling with vSMP cpu architecture support

[rargh <rargh@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I'm not familiar with ScaleMP / vSMP but it seems like it's a different 
> machine type, with a different architecture for large scale SMP systems, 
> right?

About right, except it also fully supports amd64/em64t.

> This sounds like infrastructure that Xen itself would need to support, since 
> Xen is responsible for many of the lowlevel details of the underlying system. 
>  
> Simply compiling the infrastructure into the guest would not suffice to make 
> Xen work right on that architecture.

Well, guess I'm lucky I still haven't ordered all those machines...I'll
just have to wait then.

> Furthermore, it looks like the ScaleMP architecture patches are incompatible 
> with the Xen patches, which is causing your compile error.  However, given 
> there are likely to be deeper problems with this approach I'm not sure that 
> getting the compilation to work would solve your problem...
> 
> Out of interest, does Xen itself actually boot on this system?


Since vSMP fully supports, in my case, em64t, and since I've compiled
the xen kernel for a generic amd64 architecture, yes it does -for a
single machine cluster, infortunately not what I intended in the first
place-.

Thanks for you answers,

-Oliver.

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