[CentOS] cent0s-6 and virtualbox

Mon Jul 18 15:42:02 UTC 2011
Ljubomir Ljubojevic <office at plnet.rs>

James Hogarth wrote:
>> Indication was when they supported (or just
>> forced, cant remember witch) Virtualization only on x86_64 on
>> RHEL/CentOS 5.x.
>>
> 
> They only support KVM as a host technology for virtualization now. KVM
> requires the CPU virtualization extensions to function. The functions
> are only available on the CPU when in 64bit (long) mode.
> 
> There are sound technical reasons for this and it wasn't just them
> being stubborn to drop an architecture.
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I had (and still do) rpm packages (kvm-84-1.i386) for KVM on 32-bit 
platform, made by L. Farkas. I used it successfully up to 5.4 (I think) 
when I reinstalled my server and used x86_64 version. Maybe those 
requirements are of the newer date?

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