Re: amd64: does it ever work? ;)

Avi Kivity
2008-02-11T07:28:07Z

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?

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