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).
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+).
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
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