[Users] Running 32 bit guests on 64 bit host system

[John Drescher]

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Daniel Lüdeking<mail at luedeking.eu> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I'm having my first attempts using openVZ for virtualization.
> As I read in the documentation and the wiki pages, it is generally possible to run 32 bit guests on a 64 bit host system.
>
> My question is, if it is working under any circumstances.
> I'm running 2.6.26-2-openvz-amd64 and created a container with debian-4.0-i386-minimal.tar.gz inside.
>
> In the host system uname -a displays:
> Linux host 2.6.26-2-openvz-amd64 #1 SMP Sun Jun 21 06:01:29 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> In the guest system uname -a displays:
> Linux guest 2.6.26-2-openvz-amd64 #1 SMP Sun Jun 21 06:01:29 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
>
> Does that nevertheless mean, that the guest now will behave like a 'native' 32bit host would?
> What are your experiences in running a 32bit guest on a 64bit host system?
>
>
I have had absolutely no problems with this configuration on several
systems. Even real 32 bit hw nodes I just copied and made into a
guest.

John