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[Xen-users] Re: 32 bit guests on 64 bit xen0 ?



On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 06:36:16PM +0100, Robert Hulme wrote:
> Is this currently possible?

Sort-of.  You can run 32-bit code on top of an AMD64/EM64T kernel, because
the CPU itself is backwards compatible.  It's done just the same way as
running a 32-bit userland on top of a 64-bit kernel in the non-Xen world. 
You can't run a 32-bit kernel on a 64-bit dom0, though.

- Matt

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