[Users] 64-bit host, 32-bit guests and iptables

[Listaccount]

Zitat von Kirill Korotaev <dev at sw.ru>:

> Cliff Wells wrote:
>> On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 16:47 +0100, Listaccount wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Would be nice as we plan to move all hosts to 64-bit but have 32-bit
>>> guests at least for a while.
>>
>>
>> Out of curiosity, why would you run 64-bit guests?  It seems to me that
>> in a memory-constrained environment such as a VE (assuming you're
>> allocating less than 4GB of RAM to it) 64-bit would be wasteful.
>
> Hmm... Good question :@)
> Maybe people tend to think 64bit is always better :@)

Its more of "the application inquestion should be tested on 64-bit".  
We are a software company and use OpenVZ to provide a lot of  
"testmachines" on a low number of HW-nodes.

As we will provide 64-bit Unix versions of our application we need to  
test it on 64-bit.

Regards

Andreas