[Fedora-xen] 32 bit domU, 64 bit dom0?

[Chris Lalancette]

Jeremy Utley wrote:
> On 12/7/06, Tom Horsley <tomhorsley at adelphia.net> wrote:
>> On Thu, 07 Dec 2006 22:19:29 -0500
>> Chris Lalancette <clalance at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>> There is ongoing work upstream to allow 32-bit domU's to run on 64-bit hypervisors, but that doesn't work right now.
>> Thanks. So if my hardware was newer (or I wait long enough :-),
>> I could get a 32 bit OS to run fully virtualized. I'll see what
>> happens when we try it at work on a box that does have the
>> hardware support.
> 
> Forgive me for jumping in here, but, in theory, it *should* be
> possible to utilize a 64-bit domU kernel with a 32-bit userland,
> assuming of course that the domU kernel has 32-bit compatibility
> turned on.  In practice, getting the 32-bit userland set up might be
> somewhat tricky, but this shouldn't be impossible.
> 
> Am I missing something?
> 
> Jeremy
> 
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Yes, you are right, of course.  I was mainly talking about running a 32-bit domU *kernel* on a 64-bit hypervisor/dom0.

Chris Lalancette