On 08/13/2013 11:16 PM, Les Mikesell 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.
Yes, that is exactly what I meant. If you want ot keep running 32-bit CentOS and have Virtualized guest, VirtualBox is excellent choice. Same image can be run on both Linux and Windows host systems,
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.
CentOS is multiarch, all libraries/packages necessary to run any 32-bit app exist on 64-bit system, so it can be run on 64-host, no need to have guest for that.