The changelog says 64-bit guest on 32-bit host support was added in 2.1: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Brian Hechinger <wo...@4amlunch.net> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 07:14:14PM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: >> >> 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. > > I think it would be better to answer this question that it would to attempt > to answer the VirtualBox question (I run it on a 64-bit OS, so I can't really > answer that anyway). > > The benefit to running ZFS on a 64-bit OS is if you have a large amount of > RAM. > I don't know what the breaking point is, but I can definitely tell you that a > 32-bit kernel and 4GB ram doesn't mix well. If all you are doing is testing > ZFS > on VMs you probably aren't all that worried about performance so it really > shouldn't > be an issue for you to run 32-bit. I'd say keep your RAM allocations down, > and I > wish I knew what to tell you to keep it under. Hopefully someone who has a > better > grasp of all that can chime in. > > Once you put it on real hardware, however, you really want a 64-bit CPU and > as much > RAM as you can toss at the machine. > > -brian > -- > "Coding in C is like sending a 3 year old to do groceries. You gotta > tell them exactly what you want or you'll end up with a cupboard full of > pop tarts and pancake mix." -- IRC User (http://www.bash.org/?841435) > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
