Re: What should I do for kvm development first?

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

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.
>>     
> So, does that mean I need to install a 64-bit host to make the reproduce 
> easier?
>   

A 32-bit host is fine, if you don't run 64-bit guests.

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