On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Dave Johansen davejohansen@gmail.com wrote:
I suggest you use VirtualBox, or some other distro.
I'll really like CentOS/RHEL and will definitely stick with it.
Virtualbox isn't 'instead of' CentOS' it is 'instead of KVM' as a virtualization layer. Not sure how much difference there is in capability, other than being available for many more platforms, including 32-bit linux. There should be some overlap in supported image formats. I've moved vmdk's created on vmware to both, but I'm not sure what others they each handle.
The point of my questions wasn't to complain or any like that, but just surprise because it seemed that the no 32 bit support didn't line up with my experience and just trying to make sure I understood everything.
If you have hardware support for virtualization, you should probably be running 64-bit Centos with KVM and not much else at the host OS level. If you have applications that need 32-bit, they could run in a guest.
The issue is that I have two machines and one has hardware support for virtualization but doesn't support x64, and the other is flipped. So I was hoping to be able to it on the 32-bit machine to get the speed up from hardware support, but I guess I'll just do it on the 64-bit machine and pay the price of emulation.
The reason I want to use virtualization is not on a big server, but just as a way to test builds/software on different OS versions for submission to the EPEL and Fedora. So not everyone in the world is using virtualization for server type stuff, but I realize that is the large majority of the use cases.