I've seen some talk on vmware forums indicating it is possible to run 64 bit guests on a 32 bit host as long as something called VT technology is available.
I have an athlon64 +3200 running 32 bit WinXP pro. I wondered if I would be able to run opensol in 64 bit as guest inside VirtualBox? I suspect the Mobo (A0pen AK86-L) on that Athlon may cause problems if installing opensol directly onto that hardware. I don't see any AOpen motherboards on the HCL. This one is somewhat dated.. maybe 4 yrs old or so I doubt it has VT technology.. although I really don't know. I'm successfully running Opensol-11 on that machine as a `VMware' guest but didn't know how to try to force a 64 bit install or if it would be a bad idea anyway. My whole purpose is to experiment with zfs... would I see much difference if opensol was installed 64 bit as compared to 32 bit? I noticed the Simon blogs that describe how to setup a home zfs server ( http://breden.org.uk/2008/03/02/a-home-fileserver-using-zfs/ ) mention it is best setup 64 bit, but no real reason is given. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
