On 05/02/2020 17:22, Guillaume Gardet wrote:
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>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Torsten Duwe <[email protected]>
>> Sent: 05 February 2020 16:41
>> To: Guillaume Gardet <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Josua Mayer <[email protected]>; [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [opensuse-arm] Re: New 32-bit Arm support needed for future OBS
>> builds
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 05, 2020 at 03:15:28PM +0000, Guillaume Gardet wrote:
>>>
>>> No, that is the problem. With newer hardware, this option will be gone as
>>> 32-bit
>> mode will not be supported in kernel mode, so qemu/kvm cannot run armv7
>> kernel.
>>
>> Are you sure about this? I mean, those cores will not be able to run 32-bit
>> kernels
>> natively, sure, but my (maybe outdated) information is that kvm always runs
>> guest code in "user mode" and faults on privileged instructions, which are
>> then
>> emulated anyway.
>
> That's what I have been told. I will double check.
>
Were you abe to double check? I belive we can run 32-bit VMs on 64-bit machines.
The thing is that KVM for arm32 will be dropped in the future. I know we are
using some arm32 HW to build packages, so we should look for an alternative.
Regards,
Matthias
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