On 7/9/07, Nigel Horne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Is it possible to use a 32 bit host to run a 64 bit guest? I can't get the IA64 version of FreeBSD6.2 to boot under my 32 bit Linux, qemu just changes its status bar to QEMU [ stopped ] no reason or message is printed, it just silently stops.
Generally yes, I don't know about IA64 status. For example Sparc64 emulator on x86 runs as fine as on x86-64: OpenBIOS for Sparc64 boot arg = 0x0 00000000-08000000 RAM 128 MB forth started. initializing memory...done Initializing PCI devices... 0:0.0 - 108e:a000 - /pci/pci108e,a000 - host 0:1.0 - 108e:5000 - /pci/pci108e,5000 - pci 0:1.1 - 108e:5000 - /pci/pci108e,5000 - pci 0:2.0 - 1013:b8 - /pci/pci1013,b8 - display 0:3.0 - 10ec:8029 - /pci/pci10ec,8029 - ethernet 0:4.0 - 8086:7010 - /pci/pci8086,7010 - ide ide0: [io ports 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6] drive0 [ATA disk]: QEMU HARDDISK ide1: [io ports 0x170-0x177,0x376] drive0 [ATAPI floppy]: QEMU CD-ROM floppy_init FDC is a S82078B floppy_reset floppy_motor_off SENSEI 20 00 status = 80, reply_buffer= 20 0 fdc_specify FD_SPECIFY(c1, 11) set_drive status = 80, new_dor = 10 floppy_recalibrate fdc_state.version = 0062 invalid nvram partition length nvram error detected, zapping pram falling off... Unhandled Exception 0x0000000000000008 PC = 0x0000000000000008 NPC = 0x000000000000000c Stopping execution The physical address space is much larger than 4G.
