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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>I've
installed XEN according to this tutorial: <a
href="http://www.howtoforge.com/paravirtualization-with-xen-on-centos-5.4-x86_64"
target="_blank"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>http://www.howtoforge.com/paravirtualization-with-xen-on-centos-5.4-x86_64</span></a><br>
on the first XEN boot, it freezes for a very long time on:<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>allocating pci resources starting at a8000000 (gap: a0000000:5ec00000)<o:p></o:p></span></pre>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>(the centos
installation works fine)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>I then realized
that this is caused when I set the BIOS to use Virtualization.<br>
(when I disable it, XEN boots up nicely).<br>
<br>
<br>
I have: <a href="http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=27236" target="_blank"><span
style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=27236</span></a><br>
so I can't find any reason why this is not working...<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>I’d
appreciate any help on this matter.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>MtK<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>

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