On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 11:49:59AM +0200, Gerd v. Egidy wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > > > I want to manage a 32 bit i686 guest on an x86_64 host with kvm and > > > libvirt. KVM is perfectly capable of doing this (look e.g. at > > > http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/Guest_Support_Status) but libvirt did not > > > allow it. > > > > > > So I created the attached patch to allow it and make it easy to extend > > > the capabilities of kvm and kqemu later on. > > > > This is incorrect. KVM is *not* exposing a i686 architecture CPU. It is > > exposing an x86_64 virtualized CPU which is capable of running x86_64 or > > i686 guests. No change is required. > > Thanks for looking at my patch. I understand that KVM does not offer a i686 > host cpu but allows x86_64 and i686 guests. > > The reason for my patch was that I could not create i686 guests on a x86_64 > host with KVM, the only option offered was using qemu. Yes you can - just select the x86_64 option. It is refering to the *CPU* architecture that is virtualized, *not* the OS architecture. You can select x86_64 CPU and then install a i386 operating system just fine. Dan. -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list