Gerd v. Egidy wrote: > Hi Dan, > >>> 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. > > I'm using virt-manager to create a new vm. Virt-manager asks me "CPU > architecture" and "Hypervisor". When I select i686 as CPU arch I can not > select KVM as hypervisor, only qemu is offered. > > If I understand you correctly, I should select x86_64 and KVM, even if I want > to run a 32 bit OS, right? > > Isn't that counter-intuitive? > This has confused quite a few people in the past (including myself). We should probably add some better wording in virt-manager or some kind of note explaining the terminology, but no matter what way you slice it it's still easy to get tripped up on the concepts. - Cole -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list