[CentOS-docs] Wiki Link
Akemi Yagi
amyagi at gmail.com
Tue Apr 8 10:50:41 UTC 2008
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 1:53 AM, Ralph Angenendt <ra+centos at br-online.de> wrote:
> John wrote:
> > Mention of The Xen-Kernel:
> >
> > Just a thought here. I never used the proprietary nvidia driver with the
> > xen kernel on any install of it I've done. But I beg to know why would
> > you even want to run that when you running Xen? If your running Xen then
> > your not after video acceleration correct? You after I/O and Memory
> > Bandwidth.
>
> I'd like to have xen on my Desktop machine, which has 4GB of RAM. The nv
> driver doesn't really work with the card in my machine when using 2
> monitors.
>
> But: Don't even bother to test, the nvidia driver does not work with a
> xen kernel. There have been patches floating around, which lead to a
> very unstable system.
OK, don't bother with anything. To avoid any complication, let's
change the example to -PAE.
If the user is running a non-standard kernel (such as kernel-PAE), then
the -devel package must be installed manually (kernel-PAE-devel, for
example).
Akemi
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