On 01/22/2010 07:08 AM, Farkas Levente wrote:
anyway who like to run the host on 32 bit and why?
In my case it's on a small business server - kvm is meant to replace VMWare with a better/Free option. That server is multi-purpose, including running a proprietary database (app vendor requirement), so switching arches would require an expensive and time-consuming re-validation of the entire system. Switching virt methods only requires re-validating the virtualized system and minimizes downtime.
But that's probably only one of myriad scenarios. When the package problem is fixed, I'll have a go at building them, perhaps seeing what Fedora is doing differently if there's something that doesn't work.
If that proves too difficult, I'd probably take this system and convert it to a 32-bit guest and then just run a the VM's in parallel. That's closer to an ideal solution, but again more expensive and more downtime.
-Bill