Re: [Xen-users] new installation of the base operating system

[Jonathan Selander <jonathan@xxxxxxxxx>]

You can run a 32-bit userland on a 64-bit kernel. That's what i do.

/Jonathan

Nico Kadel-Garcia skrev:
> Abri Nation wrote:
> > 2007/4/15, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@xxxxxxxxx 
> > <mailto:nkadel@xxxxxxxxx>>:
> >     Abri Nation wrote:
> >     >
> >     >
> >     >
> >     > Thank you for your answer!
> >     >
> >     > The images are fully virtualized.
> >     > An update is not possible, cause now i use FC6 i386, and i have to
> >     > install "centos5 with 64 Bit support" (could this change from
> >     i386 to
> >     > 64Bit support be also a problem for the images to start?)... i 
> > made
> >     > already a backup of /etc/xen/* and for the images. do i need to
> >     attend
> >     > something else?
> >     Switching from 32-bit to 64-bit "en vivo" this way is begging for
> >     pain.
> >     Backing up your images and Xen setup is *good*. I've seen reports of
> >     people running 32-bit VM's successfully on 64-bit OS's, but I've
> >     personally had serious trouble with running non-rebuilt apps from
> >     32-bit
> >     environments in a 64-bit environment. (Wacom devices, in 
> > particular.)
> >     Why do you have to update your server to 64-bit but not your VM's?
> >
> >
> > 64-bit was the request of the boss for the base operating system, but 
> > i could install i386 also. the  instantaneous installation was 
> > actually not for active service. but now the virtual machines are 
> > running, and i have to switch the operating system cause we do no use 
> > fedora on our linux servers at all.
> > also you do not recommend to install 64-bit? than i will install 
> > i386, i think there would not be such a big difference,or?
> > thank you Nico!
> >  
> I haven't tried running 32-bit DomU's under 64-bit operating sytems. I 
> may get a chance to in 2 weeks, but it just seems to be begging for 
> trouble.
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