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

[Zeeshan Ali Shah]

is there any other way i can confirm the 32 bit version ?

Zeeshan

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Solar Designer <solar at openwall.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 11:24:10AM +0200, Zeeshan Ali Shah wrote:
> > but why it says, 2.6.26-2-openvz-amd64 ?
>
> That's your kernel version string that got into the kernel at its
> compile time.  It won't be changing when you switch the "personality"
> for a program or for an entire container to 32-bit, and that's OK.
> Your kernel is clearly capable of running both 64- and 32-bit programs
> (in other words, it's been compiled with 32-bit syscall emulation
> support).  The "amd64" in the version string should not concern you.
> It's just a string.  It could as well say "zilog80" or whatever if the
> person compiling the kernel wanted so, which would not affect the
> kernel's operation in any way.
>
> Alexander
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