Re: [CentOS] Migration from 32 to 64 bits

On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 12:28 PM, Steve Clark sclark@netwolves.com wrote:

On 02/25/2014 01:17 PM, Fabrizio Di Carlo wrote:

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Hello to all,

currently I have CentOS 6.4 32 bit, very simple setup on my notebook, I want to migrate it from 32 to 64 bits cause I want to play with some VMs etc etc.

Do you have some suggestions on how to do backup of folders (mainly I have 1 user) or just copy the user folder and stop?

Fabrizio

Hmmm... we have 32bit CentOS 6.3 running both 32bit and 64bit VirtualBox VMs just fine.

Yes, if you want to use KVM you'd need a 64-bit install, but for VirtualBox or VMware Player it should only depend on the CPU capability, not the host OS.