Heads-up: Requiring PAE for running Xen

Steve Bonneville sbonnevi at redhat.com
Thu May 18 00:56:05 UTC 2006


"Antonio Vargas" <windenntw at gmail.com> wrote:
> xen always needed p6 hardware (didnt run on k6-II for example),
> and AFAIK p6 supports PAE always, so not any lose here i think

Nope.  "Banias" and at least early "Dothan" Pentium M and Celeron M
processors don't have working PAE.  I know some IBM ThinkPad T41
laptops will fall into this problem.  I'm not sure if there are any
AMD processors in the Athlon and later era that don't have PAE, but
there may be. 

  -- Steve




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