[Users] x86 32bit VEs on x86-64 OpenVZ

[Zeeshan Ali Shah]

but why it says, 2.6.26-2-openvz-amd64 ?

Zeeshan

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Solar Designer <solar at openwall.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 07:24:44AM +0200, Zeeshan Ali Shah wrote:
> > Linux 2.6.26-2-openvz-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Feb 11 01:40:09 UTC 2010 i686
> > GNU/Linux
> >
> > actually the program i want to install has dependency with 32 bit OS
>  which
> > is why i created the new VM but it seems that this guest is still
>  showing
> > the 64bit kernel .
>
> No, it does not.  It clearly shows "i686" above.
>
> In fact, you could achieve a similar effect by running your program
> through the "setarch" program, like:
>
> $ setarch i386 uname -m
> i686
>
> This would not require OpenVZ at all, but instead it'd require that you
> have 32-bit libraries installed on your system (you probably do) as
> these will likely be needed for your program (what the kernel says is
> likely of less importance).
>
> Anyway, you can indeed do this with OpenVZ as well, and you get better
> isolation in this way.
>
> Alexander
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