Collins, Kevin [BEELINE] wrote:
As I mentioned, I do have 64-bit hardware and am running Xen already,
which has the same hardware requirements. My question was specifically
do I need to be running the x86_64 version of RHEL... And I've now
confirmed that the kvm package is only available for x86_64.
Thanks,
kevin
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Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 10:45 AM
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Subject: [rhelv5-list] RE: RHEL5.4 + KVM + x86 32bit?
You need to have a AMD or Intel processor that supports Virtualization.
Look at /proc/cpuinfo and look at supported extensions:
AMD processor: svm
Intel processor: vmx
Only 64 bit processors will support these extensions.
Dave
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[BEELINE]
Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 1:13 PM
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Subject: [rhelv5-list] RHEL5.4 + KVM + x86 32bit?
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...
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)?
2) If I am correct, any idea when/if a 32-bit host will be supported?
fwiw 32-bit Fedora 10 has the support (the only Fedora I have easy
access to atm is a repo for F10). If RH support isn't important for this
function, you could look to CentOS 5.4 when available. Otherwise (maybe,
as well?), argue the point with your friendly RH rep.
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Cheers
John
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