From: "David S. Ahern" <daahern@cisco.com>
To: James Stevens <James.Stevens@jrcs.co.uk>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: KVM and the OOM-Killer
Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 12:55:59 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BEC4B3F.2000109@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BEC044D.4070004@redhat.com>
>> Not sure I like the idea of running a 64bit user space kernel on top
>> of a 32bit host, prefer to re-install.
>>
>> Can I just replace my kernel with a 64bit one, or do I have to
>> re-install the host O/S ?
>
> You can run 32-bit userspace with a 64-bit kernel, or reinstall,
> whichever you prefer.
>
> I once upgraded a 32-bit Fedora install to 64-bit, but that takes some
> tinkering.
>
You can just install a 64-bit kernel. For rpm based systems you have to
"unpack" the rpm using rpm2cpio. The modules.dep file cannot be updated
-- need to generate that elsewhere -- and mkinitrd needs to be modified
to not try to strip modules (s,strip,true,).
That's all I had to do to plop a 64-bit kernel onto a 32-bit install.
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-13 18:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-13 12:20 KVM and the OOM-Killer James Stevens
2010-05-13 12:39 ` Avi Kivity
2010-05-13 13:39 ` James Stevens
2010-05-13 13:53 ` Avi Kivity
2010-05-13 18:55 ` David S. Ahern [this message]
2010-05-13 13:42 ` Johannes Stezenbach
2010-05-14 7:33 ` Athanasius
2010-05-14 8:10 ` James Stevens
2010-05-14 8:21 ` Balbir Singh
2010-05-14 8:43 ` James Stevens
2010-05-14 12:28 ` Balbir Singh
2010-05-14 13:01 ` James Stevens
2010-05-14 8:19 ` Balbir Singh
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