64 bit / PAE support inot functional under fedora 8 x86_64

[jboyerjr@…]

with pae support enable on fedora x86_64 with the following Intel core duo chip: # cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 15 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6320 @ 1.86GHz stepping : 6 cpu MHz : 1867.000 cache size : 4096 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 0 cpu cores : 2 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 10 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm bogomips : 3726.22 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management:

a centos 5 64bit guest states upon boot that the cpu is not support by the kernel i am booting

[Sander van Leeuwen]

We never claimed to support 64 bits guests. PAE works with 32 bits guests.