Re: Solaris 10 U2 installation failure

[Parag Warudkar <kernel-stuff-Wuw85uim5zDR7s880joybQ@public.gmane.org>]

Avi Kivity <avi@...> writes:


> 32-bin kvm userspace can run a 64-bit guest, if you're using a 64-bit os 
> kernel, hence the 64-bit registers. Just ignore the 64-bit parts.
> 

Didn't understand. Allow me to clarify a bit -

I am running a 32-bit Host OS (Linux i386) on a purely 32-bit CPU (Core Duo). 
Solaris installation will first check if the processor is 64-bit capable and
only then install a 64-bit kernel. In that case, when Solaris asks KVM if the
CPU is 64-bit, is KVM lying to it even though the host CPU on which it is
running is NOT 64-bit capable and then emulating all AMD64 instructions without
any help from the host CPU? That sounds more confusing!

Even if it does something like that is there a way to tell KVM not to pretend
like it is running a 64-bit CPU? I don't want to run Solaris in 64-bit mode as I
am running on 32-bit host with just 512Mb of total memory.

Thanks for your patience.

Parag


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