On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 09:14 +0100, Harald Grossauer wrote: > I have an Athlon64 system with FC4-x86_64 running. For several reasons I > also would like to have a FC3_i386 system running at the same time. How > can I do that? > > I tried to use Xen (the 3.0-unstable-x86_64) but it did not work (could > not find my root partition after the xen kernel was loaded, probably due > to missing SATA support in the kernel). Neither could I compile Xen-2.7 > myself (gcc4 complained about a struct with unkown length, gcc32 issued > a warning which is treated as an error in by the xen Makefiles). > > So I created an ext3 filesystem in an ordinary file and mounted it. Then > I thought I could install FC3_i386 into that file so that I later can > chroot into it. But since the installer (autorun) of FC3_i386 needs to > be root I am afraid that it messes up my currently runnning system. > > Do you have some links, help or additional information for me? > OT question: >From where did you find Xen 3.0 x86-64 tools (and kernel) for FC4? AFAIK Xen is only supported (both host and guest) under i386. Gilboa
