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From: | Avi Kivity |
Subject: | Re: [Qemu-devel] Merging improvements from VirtualBox OSE into qemu? |
Date: | Thu, 25 Dec 2008 09:11:40 +0200 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (X11/20081119) |
Jamie Lokier wrote:
Paul Brook wrote:Any hardware that supports KVM is already 64-bit, and you're almost entirely targetting obsolete hardware.32-bit hardware is still in use. My laptop is just over 2 years old, and there were *no* 64-bit Intel laptop CPUs available when I bought it (or I would have bought one). I use 32-bit KVM very often on my laptop, for OS compatibility testing, Windows development, BSD development, old Linux development and binary software packaging. (I also use QEMU, with and without KQEMU, to run older guest OSes that KVM does not work for.) To say 32-bit KVM-capable hardware is obsolete implies all _relevant_ laptop users buy new ones every less than 2 years, which sounds ridiculous to me.
Well, your laptop won't run 64-bit guests at native speeds. The VirtualBox hack requires 64-bit capable hardware, more than likely. It just allows you to run a 32-bit host OS.
If you do have 64-bit capable hardware, then nothing prevents you from running a 64-bit host OS (still capable of running 32-bit apps) or a 64-bit kernel and 32-bit userspace. The VirtualBox trick is mostly relevant to Windows, where 32-bit is still much more popular than 64-bit.
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