Thanks - I also confirmed that the kvm software package is only in the x86_64 software channel.
Kevin -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jeff Burke Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 10:42 AM To: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (Tikanga) discussion mailing-list Subject: Re: [rhelv5-list] RHEL5.4 + KVM + x86 32bit? 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/Vir tualization_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 _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
