Re: What should I do for kvm development first?

[Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>]

Neo Jia wrote:
> On Nov 18, 2007 3:04 AM, Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>   
>> Neo Jia wrote:
>>     
>>> Another question is about the architecture, I found it seems that the
>>> 32-bit platform is much more stable than 64-bit. Should I switch my
>>> system to 64-bit for later work?
>>>
>>>       
>> Where do you get this impression?  I do almost all of my development on
>> 64-bit, and I don't recall an issue that was 64-bit host specific.
>>     
>
> Sorry about that ...
>
> because I always saw "host 64-bit" in the bug report although maybe
> they are not 64-bit host specific problem.
>   

Yes.  Most testing (and production use) is done on 64-bit hosts, since 
virtualization is memory-intensive.  Also, you can test more types of 
guests this way.  Almost all virtualization-capable processors are also 
64-bit capable.

32-bit hosts are mostly useful for laptop/desktop use.

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