Re: Why some test suite in kvm-unit-tests designed for 64bit only?

Jan Kiszka
2013-05-31T04:29:58Z

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On 2013-05-30 19:58, 李春奇 <Arthur Chunqi Li> wrote:
> Hi there,
> I'm now reading codes of kvm-unit-tests and I found that some of the
> test cases for x86 is only designed for x86_64 (including access.flat,
> apic.flat, emulator.flat, idt_test.flat and so on). I wonder why these
> cases are not designed for i386? Or is there any other concerns?

First of all, 32-bit hosts are rarely used in x86 virtualization today.
Also, some tests may actually stress the same logic of KVM if run on
32-bit x86.

That said, if you find cases where you think a 32-bit variant of a test
case makes sense, feel free to suggest it!

Jan

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