running i386 vkernel on amd64
Hi, This may be a really stupid doubt but still.. I have run x86 vkernel on x86. My doubts are. 1) is it possible to run x86 vkernel on amd64? 2) Can I install Xorg on vkernels? Thank you so much --Siju
Re: problem with system freeze
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Goetz Isenmann i...@goetz-isenmann.de wrote: Hi! My problem started many weeks ago, with a cheap amd64 system running i386 dfly240 and after updating to something (I believe) between 2.5.1.750 and 850, and any later version. The system stopped suddenly responding to the keyboard and the mouse. As far as I remember, it only happened within X11, and maybe only while also using the network. For example restarting firefox with 10-20 open tabs often ended with a freeze. oh boy, It happened to me on my amd64 machine in 2.7 development last week. everything stopped responding keyboard mouse etc. I thought it was the window manager problem ( enlightenment ) so i tried different window manager but it still froze. Yes as you said I also had firefox in it. Then I tried the i386 port. 2.7 development on the same hardware. i had no problems when i was using the xorg packages from avalon. but yesterday i did two things. 1) complie an SMP kernel. 2) make pkgsrc-update pkg_rolling-replace -u Today the system froze. I thought it was the SMP kernel but then I booted in the old kernel and still the system froze. I changed the window manager from enlightenment to ctwm but it still showed the same problem. I guess it is the xorg in pkgsrc current that is the culprit. But I am not sure since it was time to leave office i thought I will do further tests on monday and try to corner the bug and report it. thanks --Siju
Re: running i386 vkernel on amd64
Hi Siju, Both no as far as I know :-) Cheers, Antonio Huete 2010/5/21 Siju George sgeorge...@gmail.com: Hi, This may be a really stupid doubt but still.. I have run x86 vkernel on x86. My doubts are. 1) is it possible to run x86 vkernel on amd64? 2) Can I install Xorg on vkernels? Thank you so much --Siju -- Cheers, Antonio Huete
Re: running i386 vkernel on amd64
Am 21.05.2010 16:29, schrieb Siju George: Hi, This may be a really stupid doubt but still.. I have run x86 vkernel on x86. My doubts are. 1) is it possible to run x86 vkernel on amd64? No, just like you can't run any other i386 binaries on x86_64. However, you can run an x86_64 vkernel of course (VKERNEL64 config). Sascha -- http://yoyodyne.ath.cx
Re: running i386 vkernel on amd64
Hi, On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 07:29:59AM -0700, Siju George wrote: 2) Can I install Xorg on vkernels? You can install which ever applications you want, but it doesn't mean they all work as you expected :) But seriously, since the X server and the clients don't need to be running on the same node, you should be able to run any X clients (firefox, for instance) inside a vkernel by setting DISPLAY environment variable to point to the vkernel host which is also running X server and accepts X protocol from the vkernel. Cheers.
