paravirtualized 32-bit on 64-bit host?

[Furnish, Trever G]

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Jose R R
> Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 12:43 PM
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> Subject: Re: paravirtualized 32-bit on 64-bit host?
> 
> On 3/7/08, Furnish, Trever G <TGFurnish at herffjones.com> wrote:
> >
> > Anyone managed to get a paravirtualized 32-bit guest working on a 
> > 64-bit redhat host?  The RHEL5.1 release notes claim 
> there's preview 
> > support for it.  If by "technology preview" they mean, "We tried it 
> > and it didn't work", then yeah, I guess there's support.  But I'm 
> > having no luck. :-(
> >
> > 
> >
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-manual/release-no
> > te
> > s/RELEASE-NOTES-U1-x86_64-en.html
> >
> > Anyone else fairing better?
> >
> > --
> > Trever
> >
> 
> Well last year I installed a 32-bit WinXP instance under 
> 64-bit OpenSuSE host implementation of Xen.
> Of course, proprietary technology is not actually 
> paravirtualized, but rather fully virutalized with the help 
> of the (AMD CPU in my specific case) hardware extensions.  
> You can find an overview of what I did, if interested of course, at:
> http://www.metztli-it.com/blog/index.php?blog=4&title=open-sou
> rce-on-sun-microsystems-sun-ultr-20&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jose R Rodriguez
> http://www.metztli-it.com

Thanks, Jose.  I was hoping to avoid full virtualization due to the
reported performance impacts, but perhaps that'll just have to wait.
And you were the only one who even responded -- much appreciated!