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From: "Jernej Simončič" <jernej@ena.si>
To: "Liraz Siri on [qemu-devel]" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Merging improvements from VirtualBox OSE into qemu?
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:51:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <646843313.20081224155136@ena.si> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4952484F.6010406@turnkeylinux.org>

On Wednesday, December 24, 2008, 15:33:51, Liraz Siri wrote:

> I don't really understand the implementation VirtualBox uses to
> accomplish running 64bit VM guests on a 32bit host. Is it possible
> VirtualBox have figured out how to run 64bit instructions on a host
> running in 32bit mode? (otherwise they'll need to be doing some kind of
> emulation)

VirtualBox isn't the only one that supports this - VMWare also lets
you run 64bit guests on 32bit hosts.

> Testing this VirtualBox feature on hardware that doesn't support 64bit
> instructions will be revealing...

AFAIK, VirtualBox requires hardware virtualisation support for running
64bit guests, so you'll have to find a Core Duo CPU somewhere (which
are AFAIK, the only 32-bit CPUs that have hardware virtualisation
support).

-- 
< Jernej Simončič ><><><><>< http://eternallybored.org/ >

If you drop something, it will never reach the ground.
       -- Femo's Law Of Automotive Engine Repairing

  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-24 14:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-24 12:48 [Qemu-devel] Merging improvements from VirtualBox OSE into qemu? Liraz Siri
2008-12-24 13:17 ` Samuel Thibault
2008-12-24 13:26   ` Alexey Eremenko
2008-12-24 13:31 ` Alexey Eremenko
2008-12-24 13:36 ` Paul Brook
2008-12-24 14:33   ` Liraz Siri
2008-12-24 14:51     ` Jernej Simončič [this message]
2008-12-24 15:02     ` Paul Brook
2008-12-24 15:29       ` Liraz Siri
2008-12-24 15:40     ` Anthony Liguori
2008-12-24 20:52       ` Liraz Siri
     [not found]     ` <E71DFB2B-0B73-46AE-B423-0BF605A9D679@hotmail.com>
2008-12-25  4:37       ` C.W. Betts
2008-12-25  7:06     ` Avi Kivity
2008-12-25  7:07     ` Avi Kivity
2008-12-25  7:08     ` Avi Kivity
2008-12-25 14:51       ` Liraz Siri
2008-12-25 16:14         ` Avi Kivity
2008-12-24 23:18   ` Jamie Lokier
2008-12-25  7:11     ` Avi Kivity
2008-12-24 15:23 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-12-24 20:21   ` Liraz Siri
2008-12-24 20:55   ` Liraz Siri
2009-01-05 21:12   ` Frank Mehnert
2009-01-05 22:03     ` Stefan Weil
2009-01-05 23:58     ` Anthony Liguori
2009-01-06  7:41       ` Frank Mehnert
2009-01-06 15:46         ` Blue Swirl
2009-01-06 17:33         ` Anthony Liguori
2009-01-06 20:40           ` Frank Mehnert
2009-01-06 22:17             ` Jamie Lokier

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