Re: 32-bit Kernel on 64-bit CPU?

2013-01-19 Thread craig
On Saturday, January 19, 2013 07:44, "Pascal Hambourg" said: > Hello, > > Andrei POPESCU a écrit : >> >> The 686-pae kernel is 32-bit, nothing strange here. >> >> However, in your OP you mentioned not being able to allocate more than 2 >> GB with qemu. Unless this is some limitation of qemu it

Re: 32-bit Kernel on 64-bit CPU?

2013-01-19 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Hello, Andrei POPESCU a écrit : > > The 686-pae kernel is 32-bit, nothing strange here. > > However, in your OP you mentioned not being able to allocate more than 2 > GB with qemu. Unless this is some limitation of qemu it should have > worked with the -686-pae kernel Don't forget that even

RE: 32-bit Kernel on 64-bit CPU?

2013-01-18 Thread Mark Allums
> This is a problem with qemu. I seem to have missed the line about "except > 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts" Reloading with the amd64 iso image has > resolved the problems. I just allocated 3073 MB to a vm with no problem. Doing that is at least theoretically possible with hardware virtualization

Re: 32-bit Kernel on 64-bit CPU?

2013-01-18 Thread craig
On Friday, January 18, 2013 11:13, "Andrei POPESCU" said: > On Vi, 18 ian 13, 10:26:10, cr...@gtek.biz wrote: >> >> I used the i386 net install image, and selected the (if I remember correctly) >> i686-3.2.0-4-pae kernel. Are you saying that should have installed the 64-bit >> kernel or that I g

Re: 32-bit Kernel on 64-bit CPU? [SOLVED]

2013-01-18 Thread craig
On Thursday, January 17, 2013 16:08, "Hugo Vanwoerkom" said: understand how to get a 64-bit kernel? Do I just need to select the correct > > AFAIK you have to reinstall with > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/wheezy_di_beta4/amd64/iso-cd/debian-wheezy-DI-b4-amd64-netinst.iso > > Because

Re: 32-bit Kernel on 64-bit CPU?

2013-01-18 Thread craig
On Friday, January 18, 2013 11:13, "Andrei POPESCU" said: > On Vi, 18 ian 13, 10:26:10, cr...@gtek.biz wrote: >> >> I used the i386 net install image, and selected the (if I remember correctly) >> i686-3.2.0-4-pae kernel. Are you saying that should have installed the 64-bit >> kernel or that I g

Re: 32-bit Kernel on 64-bit CPU?

2013-01-18 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 18 ian 13, 10:26:10, cr...@gtek.biz wrote: > > I used the i386 net install image, and selected the (if I remember correctly) > i686-3.2.0-4-pae kernel. Are you saying that should have installed the 64-bit > kernel or that I got the 32-bit kernel I did't realize I was asking for? The 686-p

Re: 32-bit Kernel on 64-bit CPU?

2013-01-18 Thread craig
On Thursday, January 17, 2013 17:08, "Andrei POPESCU" said: > On Jo, 17 ian 13, 13:09:46, cr...@gtek.biz wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> I have a fairly modern Desktop PC with two Intel Xeon X5690 Processors. It >> appears the default install of Wheezy installed a 32-bit kernel, because qemu >> will

Re: 32-bit Kernel on 64-bit CPU?

2013-01-18 Thread craig
On Thursday, January 17, 2013 16:44, "Lisi Reisz" said: > On Thursday 17 January 2013 20:44:07 cr...@gtek.biz wrote: >> > Hum... this might be an option, but the easier is to install from the >> > amd64 iso, since with only the kernel using amd64, you will not have >> > benefits from your x86_64

Re: 32-bit Kernel on 64-bit CPU?

2013-01-18 Thread craig
On Thursday, January 17, 2013 16:08, "Hugo Vanwoerkom" said: >>> What's the output of >>> >>> dpkg --print-architecture >>> dpkg --print-foreign-architectures >> >> [my-desktop:~]$ dpkg --print-architecture >> i386 >> [my-desktop:~]$ dpkg --print-foreign-architectures >> [my-desktop:~]$ >> >> I

Re: 32-bit Kernel on 64-bit CPU?

2013-01-17 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 17 ian 13, 13:09:46, cr...@gtek.biz wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a fairly modern Desktop PC with two Intel Xeon X5690 Processors. It > appears the default install of Wheezy installed a 32-bit kernel, because qemu > will not allow me to allocate more than 2047MB of RAM. How can I verify th

Re: 32-bit Kernel on 64-bit CPU?

2013-01-17 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 17 January 2013 20:44:07 cr...@gtek.biz wrote: > > Hum... this might be an option, but the easier is to install from the > > amd64 iso, since with only the kernel using amd64, you will not have > > benefits from your x86_64 arch. > > So just do a clean install? That I can do, but not to

Re: 32-bit Kernel on 64-bit CPU?

2013-01-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
cr...@gtek.biz wrote: On Thursday, January 17, 2013 15:30, "Hugo Vanwoerkom" said: I have a fairly modern Desktop PC with two Intel Xeon X5690 Processors. It appears the default install of Wheezy installed a 32-bit kernel, because qemu will not allow me to allocate more than 2047MB of RAM. Ho

Re: 32-bit Kernel on 64-bit CPU?

2013-01-17 Thread craig
On Thursday, January 17, 2013 15:30, "Hugo Vanwoerkom" said: >> I have a fairly modern Desktop PC with two Intel Xeon X5690 Processors. It >> appears the default install of Wheezy installed a 32-bit kernel, because qemu >> will not allow me to allocate more than 2047MB of RAM. How can I verify t

Re: 32-bit Kernel on 64-bit CPU?

2013-01-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
cr...@gtek.biz wrote: Hello all, I have a fairly modern Desktop PC with two Intel Xeon X5690 Processors. It appears the default install of Wheezy installed a 32-bit kernel, because qemu will not allow me to allocate more than 2047MB of RAM. How can I verify that is the case, and if so, can anyon

Re: 32-bit Kernel on 64-bit CPU?

2013-01-17 Thread craig
On Thursday, January 17, 2013 14:33, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org said: > Le 17.01.2013 20:53, cr...@gtek.biz a écrit : >> On Thursday, January 17, 2013 13:13, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org >> said: >> can anyone point me to anything that might help me understand how to get a 64-bit ker

Re: 32-bit Kernel on 64-bit CPU?

2013-01-17 Thread berenger . morel
Le 17.01.2013 20:53, cr...@gtek.biz a écrit : On Thursday, January 17, 2013 13:13, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org said: can anyone point me to anything that might help me understand how to get a 64-bit kernel? Regards, Craig SImply download the correct arch, which is named amd64 (it is ok

Re: 32-bit Kernel on 64-bit CPU?

2013-01-17 Thread craig
On Thursday, January 17, 2013 13:13, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org said: >> can anyone point me to anything that might help me >> understand how to get a 64-bit kernel? >> >> Regards, Craig > > SImply download the correct arch, which is named amd64 (it is ok for > intel proc too) Didn't know tha

Re: 32-bit Kernel on 64-bit CPU?

2013-01-17 Thread berenger . morel
Le 17.01.2013 20:09, cr...@gtek.biz a écrit : Hello all, I have a fairly modern Desktop PC with two Intel Xeon X5690 Processors. It appears the default install of Wheezy installed a 32-bit kernel, because qemu will not allow me to allocate more than 2047MB of RAM. How can I verify that is the

32-bit Kernel on 64-bit CPU?

2013-01-17 Thread craig
Hello all, I have a fairly modern Desktop PC with two Intel Xeon X5690 Processors. It appears the default install of Wheezy installed a 32-bit kernel, because qemu will not allow me to allocate more than 2047MB of RAM. How can I verify that is the case, and if so, can anyone point me to anything t