[CentOS] qemu-kvm package?

[Dave Johansen]

On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 8:24 AM, Patrick Hurrelmann
<patrick.hurrelmann at lobster.de> wrote:
>
> On 09.08.2013 17:21, Dave Johansen wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 8:15 AM, lists-centos
> > <replies-lists-c9y6-centos at listmail.innovate.net> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> ------------ Original Message ------------
> >>> Date: Friday, August 09, 2013 08:04:08 AM -0700
> >>> From: Dave Johansen <davejohansen at gmail.com>
> >>> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org>
> >>> Cc:
> >>> Subject: [CentOS] qemu-kvm package?
> >>>
> >>> I just did a clean net install of CentOS 6.4 and when I run
> >>> virt-manager it says that qemu-kvm is missing, but when I try to
> >>> install it with yum it says that there isn't a package with that
> >>> name. Is something wrong with my configuration? Or what is causing
> >>> this package to appear as not available? Thanks,
> >>> Dave
> >>
> >> Is this install on a 32-bit machine?
> >>
> >> It's there for 64-bit, but I don't see it for 32-bit.
> >>
> >>
> >>    - Richard
> >
> >
> > It's a 32-bit install.
>
> kvm is not supported on 32bit installs in rhel/centos.

Really? Is there a reason why that is the case? Because the hardware
supports it and so is it just that the software doesn't support
32-bit? That's kind of surprising because my experience has usually
been that if both weren't supported then it was 64 bit that was
lacking.