> > I'll really like CentOS/RHEL and will definitely stick with it. The > point of my questions wasn't to complain or any like that, but just > surprise because it seemed that the no 32 bit support didn't line up > with my experience and just trying to make sure I understood > everything. > > Thanks, > Dave I suspect that with the notion of modern OSes normally needing at least 1G each even in a VM (often much more), the choice was to steer resources to the 64bit platform for virtulization because 32bit machines can't address nearly as much memory space, often a key factor for VMs. given the amount of resources to maintain a platform that can't really support production workloads and most modern machines should be able to switch to 64bit OS pretty seamlessly, I suspect there was no justification to keep support for a 32bit version. just my theory, not sure if it's of any help for you.