Installation guide

Chapter 2. Xen restrictions and support

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 supports various combinations for hosts and guests. Processor and

memory limitations exist and can be viewed at the following URLs:

For host systems: http://www.redhat.com/products/enterprise-linux/server/compare.html

For hypervisors: http://www.redhat.com/resourcelibrary/articles/virtualization-limits-rhel-

hypervisors

The following URL shows a complete matrix of supported operating systems and host and guest

combinations:

http://www.redhat.com/resourcelibrary/articles/enterprise-linux-virtualization-support

Note

To utilize para-virtualization on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, your processor must have the

Physical Address Extension (PAE) instruction set.

Note

Virtualization with the Xen hypervisor on the Intel Itanium architecture requires the guest

firmware image package. See Installing the Xen hypervisor with yum for more information.

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