Thanks for the information.

This information can be much useful for my understanding.

On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 11:21 AM, Fajar A. Nugraha <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 12:41 PM, Ganesh K <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just recently started using lxc containers. Right now, I am using
> Ubuntu
> > 32-bit machine for understanding lxc containers.
> >
> > I just want to know, how to run 64-bit ubuntu lxc container on 32-bit
> ubuntu
> > host machine.
>
> Short version: don't bother. Use 64-bit host.
>
> Long version: I haven't tested this, but at the very least you'd need
> a 64-bit kernel (since host and container share the same kernel).
> While using 64-bit kernel on 32-bit userland as host is possible, it
> requires somewhat complicated effort (possibly include compiling your
> own kernel, or setup an alternate root environment) , and AFAIK is not
> a supported configuration on any x86/amd64 linux distro.
>
> There might be other requirements as well. Again, I haven't tested
> this, and I don't think there's a real use case for this. If your
> machine is an atom netbook (usually with 2GB ram) that comes with
> 32bit windows and 32bit efi (like the popular asus t100), you could
> install 64bit linux on it. Windows only allows 32bit OS on 32bit efi,
> linux have no such limitation.
>
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Regards,
Ganesh
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