[CentOS] KVM in CentOS 5?

On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > On Thu, 7 Aug 2014 22:54:40 +0300
>> > Eero Volotinen <eero.volotinen at iki.fi> wrote:
>> > > 2014-08-07 22:49 GMT+03:00 Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko at gmail.com>:
>> > So, is there any possibility to have kvm on C5?
>> >
>>
>> yes, just do 'yum install kvm' and remember that x86_64 cpu with
>> hardware virtualization is needed ..
>
> ... And in addition to that, I need to have a 64-bit OS running on it,
> which I apparently don't. Just my luck. :-(
>

Technically you don't need to have a 64-bit host OS to virtualize a
64-bit guest but that may be the way kvm is built.   I know I used to
run 64-bit linux versions under vmware player on a laptop running
32-bit windows XP.    Maybe virtualbox would work...

-- 
    Les Mikesell
      lesmikesell at gmail.com