[ug-bosug] Nevada and x86 64bit CPU's : a few questions

[Ashwin Bhat]

Not exactly. SXDE is working fine as a guest OS in Vmware. I just wanted to
know that whether the flag was set by default or had to be set manually.
Thanks for the answer.

On Feb 13, 2008 2:54 AM, Ananth Shrinivas <Ananth.Shrinivas at sun.com> wrote:

> Ashwin Bhat wrote:
> > How does one set the PAE flag in Solaris ?
>
> It is turned on by default. Which means the HAT layer will use PAE if
> available. To forcibly turn it off add the variable "set
> force_pae_off=1" to /etc/system and reboot.
>
> Do you intend to turn it off due to the problems with 32-bit VMWare
> guest OS ? If not you should realize that force_pae_off has some nasty
> side-effects like losing PROT_EXEC because the NX bit is available only
> when the MMU is operating in PAE mode.
>
> Cheers,
> Ananth
>
>


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Regards
Ashwin Bhat K S
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