[Libguestfs] Whether libguestfs work only with 32bit processors

[Rajiv Rajaian]

Thank Richard
Will you please help me to remove the 32 bit test from
/usr/bin/virt-resize.??
Whether I have to add any option to this command or how to run this
command??


On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 7:41 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 07:20:09PM +0530, Rajiv Rajaian wrote:
> > And I have tried to resize the KVM guest image with virt-resize command.
> But
> > I'm getting the error as  "virt-resize: sorry this program does not work
> on
> > a 32 bit host" since Im su
> > Whether libguest doesnt have any support fo 32 bit processors?? Or can u
> > please suggest me any other versions of libguestfs that would support 32
> bit
> > processor.
>
> The problem isn't with libguestfs -- libguestfs works just fine with
> 32 and 64 bit processors.  The problem is virt-resize: It does some
> calculations using long integers, and these aren't possible in 32 bit
> Perl (or more precisely, 32 bit Perl will convert these calculations
> to double, which means they won't be accurate).
>
> You can try removing the 32 bit test from /usr/bin/virt-resize.  It
> should run, but the results of the resize aren't guaranteed to work.
>
> The only other issue I'm aware of with libguestfs and 32 bit
> processors is that not many 32 bit processors had support for hardware
> virt, so it'll be a bit slow (but should still work).
>
> One of these days I'll rewrite virt-resize in OCaml ...
>
> Rich.
>
> --
> Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat
> http://people.redhat.com/~rjones
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