[Lguest] lguest

[Rusty Russell]

On Tuesday 16 October 2007 04:17:46 Jerry Geis wrote:
> Rusty,
>
> I was looking at lguest.txt and trying to find out about 32/64
> compatibilty. I have 2.6.23 up and running.
>
> I have a 64 bit host AMD. I want to virtualize older 32 bit images.
> No graphcis or anything just a text console on the image to boot up,
> use the old compiler to compile a bunch of programs, zip it up, copy it
> to someplace on the network and then exit basically.
>
> Will lguest do 64 bit host and 32 bit lguest? Is that something coming?

Hi Jerry,

	Unfortunately I don't think so: there's bound to be some ickiness in 
switching from 64 to 32 bit and vice-versa.  If you have a recent AMD system 
you can use KVM, however, which does this flawlessly.

Cheers,
Rusty.