From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH] xen: remove support for non-PAE 32-bit
Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 12:48:18 +0100
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Robert Kaiser (FH) wrote:
> Hmm, I had to revert to non-PAE operation (using xen 3.2.1) recently in order 
> to get Xen to run under qemu. Does anyone know of another work-around to run 
> Xen/Linux under qemu?

In principle it should work in PAE mode; it certainly works in kvm.  
What problem are you seeing?  I think there's a bug in qemu's x86 
emulation with respect to mis-reporting the eip of an xchg which faults, 
which may be what you're seeing.

    J