Re: amd64: does it ever work? ;)

Amit Shah
2008-02-11T06:57:52Z

On Sunday 10 February 2008 17:01:46 Avi Kivity wrote:
> Michael Tokarev wrote:
> > Ok, I finally got it working.
> >
> > The problem was 32/64 bits issue. I'm so used to 64bits kernel and
> > 32bits userland - not a single thought occured to me that this might be
> > problematic of some sort. I was always trying 32bits kvm usermode tools
> > with 64bits kernels. Now I booted a 32bits kernel, and it finally
> > worked. Oh well.
>
> Actually this is intended to work. I'll look into it.

I think he means a 64-bit kernel in the guest with 32-bit userspace in
guest -- that won't work.