[plug] Server back up

[Cameron Patrick]

Adrian Chadd wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 08, 2007, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> > Bernd Felsche wrote:
> > 
> > > Serves you right for replacing the stable operating system on the
> > > EPIA. :-)
> > > 
> > > Heaven only knows why such a machine needs to be "fast".
> > 
> > The EPIA is not only unreliable, it also can't run Xen ... at the moment
> > we're using User Mode Linux for virtualisation, which may or may not be
> > the cause of the crashiness.  (Maybe we shouldn't be bothering with
> > virtualisation at all on the PLUG? *shrug* It seemed like a cool idea
> > when we set it up in 2004-ish!)
> 
> .. why won't it run Xen?

It only implements the 80486 instructions, and specifically not of all
the Pentium Pro ones, and more specifically not cmov.  Last I looked,
Xen needed those.

Reference: http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2007-02/msg01143.html

Cameron.