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| author | iap10@freefall.cl.cam.ac.uk <iap10@freefall.cl.cam.ac.uk> | 2003-09-20 08:27:19 +0000 |
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| committer | iap10@freefall.cl.cam.ac.uk <iap10@freefall.cl.cam.ac.uk> | 2003-09-20 08:27:19 +0000 |
| commit | f810087ecb952053cf3a03b75455da26e379b947 (patch) | |
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@@ -104,7 +104,8 @@ Hardware support Xen is intended to be run on server-class machines, and the current list of supported hardware very much reflects this, avoiding the need -for us to write drivers for "legacy" hardware. +for us to write drivers for "legacy" hardware. Certain desktop chipsets +such as nvidia nforce2 are currently unsupported. Xen requires a "P6" or newer processor (e.g. Pentium Pro, Celeron, Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium IV, Xeon, AMD Athlon, AMD Duron). @@ -38,8 +38,8 @@ CPU: Pentium Pro/II/III/IV/Xeon, Athlon (i.e. P6 or newer) SMP supported IDE: Intel PIIX chipset, others will be PIO only (slow) SCSI: Adaptec / Dell PERC Raid (aacraid), megaraid, Adaptec aic7xxx Net: Recommended: Intel e1000, Broadcom BCM57xx (tg3), 3c905 (3c59x) - Tested but require extra copies : pcnet32, Intel e100 - Untested and also requires extra copies : tulip + Tested but require extra copies : pcnet32 + Untested and also requires extra copies : Intel e100, tulip Because of the demo CD's use of RAM disks, make sure you have plenty of RAM (256MB+). @@ -250,6 +250,27 @@ fire way to cause irreparable damage)! If you want read-write sharing, export the directory to other domains via NFS from domain0. +Troubleshooting Problems +======================== + +If you have problems booting Xen, there are a number of boot parameters +that may be able to help diagnose problems: + + noacpi turn acpi probing off, which may confuse Xen on some chipsets + watchdog enable NMI watchdog which can report certain failures + nosmp disable SMP support + noht disable Hyperthreading + ifname=ethXX select which Ethernet interface to use if you have multiple + ifname=dummy don't use any network interface + ser_baud=xxx set serial line baud rate for console + dom0_mem=xxx set the initial amount of memory for domain0. Xen will also + reserve some memory fr itself too. + + +It's probably a good idea to join the Xen developer's mailing list on +Sourceforge: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xen-devel + + About The Xen Demo CD ===================== |