From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:59593) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TCSNM-0005OU-Up for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2012 05:39:56 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TCSNG-0001BI-Qr for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2012 05:39:52 -0400 Received: from isrv.corpit.ru ([86.62.121.231]:42775) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TCSNG-0001B5-Jc for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2012 05:39:46 -0400 Message-ID: <5052FB60.3060109@msgid.tls.msk.ru> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 13:39:44 +0400 From: Michael Tokarev MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <5052DF3A.1070007@msgid.tls.msk.ru> <20120914093304.GC6819@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20120914093304.GC6819@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-system-i386 vs qemu-system-x86_64 ? List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: "Daniel P. Berrange" Cc: qemu-devel On 14.09.2012 13:33, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 11:39:38AM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: >> What's the difference between the two except that the >> latter adds some more instructions (actually whole new >> subsytem) to the former? Why do we need -i386, what >> -x86_64 does not do which does -i386? > > AFAIK, qemu-system-x86_64 does not support KVM on a 32-bit host. Isn't it the other way around? Or, does qemu-system-i386 EVER support kvm? Thanks, /mjt