On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 10:17 AM, Dave Johansen davejohansen@gmail.com wrote:
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.
What processor does hardware virtualization but isn't 64-bit?
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.
If you want a 64-bit guest, I think the host has to support both hardware virtualization and 64-bit, although the host OS doesn't technically have to be a 64-bit version. For example I have run a 64-bit linux guest under 32-bit windows XP with vmware player - and I think virtualbox would do the same..
Your use case should be fairly common, but you need host support if you want 64-bit guests.