Re: amd64: does it ever work? ;)

Amit Shah
2008-02-12T05:27:48Z

On Monday 11 February 2008 12:58:07 Avi Kivity wrote:
> Amit Shah wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Why not?

Hmm, I thought having 64-bit userland with 32-bit compat libraries was the
only way of making that work.