32bit guest on 64bit host, should it work?

Karel Volný kvolny at redhat.com
Wed Oct 16 14:49:46 UTC 2013


Dne středa, 16. října 2013 16:12:21 CEST, Chris Murphy  napsal(a):
> Is a 64bit host expected to support running a 32bit guest OS in 
> qemu/kvm? Or do archs need to match?

I believe, if the CPU does support that (are we talking aboout x86_64?), KVM won't stand in the way

anyways, you can always use qemu without kvm, then you can run anything-on-anything (if performance is not an issue)

K.

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