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Hi Rob,
On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 02:31:35PM +0100, Rob Malpass wrote:
> Two related questions:
> 1) I want to build a machine with a lot of RAM for virtualisation (I want 
> to run a handful of servers on one physical box) purposes - probably 8Gb - 
> the maximum the board supports.   However I'm told I can't get at all of 
> this RAM unless I run in 64 bit mode.   Is this true?
Yes and no.  Not in a single process.  A PAE kernel will let you
address up to 64G but each process only being able to address
3.mumbleG.
> 2) There's a problem with this in as much as it seems there aren't any 
> 64-bit drivers for the graphics card I have in situe.   I got around this 
> by running in 32-bit mode - but if 1) is true - I can only go to 3Gb of RAM 
> (so I've been told) which may or may not be enough to run the several vm's 
> I have in mind.
Depending on the virtualisation technology you may be able to give
more to each VM or not.  It's not a problem in Xen for example.  But
may be for qemu or KVM.  Then again it may not be a problem for you
to be limited to 3.mumbleG per VM anyway.
Cheers,
Andy