Collins, Kevin [BEELINE] wrote:
Hi all,
I was just perusing the Vritualization Guide
(https://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.4/html/Virtualization_Guide/index.html)
and see this note in the section “KVM restrictions and support”:
“Important
KVM only supports AMD64 and Intel 64 versions of Red Hat Enterprise
Linux. Other architectures are not supported at this time.”
I am running Xen on RHEL5 32-bit for a couple years now and want to
start exploring KVM, but I don’t have any other reason to move to 64-bit...
You can't have both running at the same time. If your running kernel-xen
then you can't build/run kvm guests. So to experiment you will need to
boot the standard kernel and load the modules for KVM. A mixed
environment is not supported.
Two questions:
1) Am I correctly interpreting that quote as indicating I can’t
currently run KVM on my 32-bit RHEL5 (the underlying hardware IS 64-bit
Intel)?
Yes, that is correct. The host OS has to be 64 bit. You can then build a
32 bit KVM quest.
2) If I am correct, any idea when/if a 32-bit host will be supported?
I don't know if it ever will be supported as a 32 bit host.
Thanks,
Kevin
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