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Re: [Xen-users] 64bit guest on 32bit host

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] 64bit guest on 32bit host
From: Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 16:16:36 +0100
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> > If your host CPU is 32-bit then there's no way of running a 64-bit guest
> > using Xen - sorry.  You could try Qemu (http://www.qemu.org) which is a
> > full emulator and thus might be able to do what you want
>
> I have tried to install 64-bit Debian Etch on 32-bit Ubuntu with qemu,
> accidentally at home with no success. I got the error about I can't do
> that.

I think that may now be possible, but I could be wrong...  Certainly 
the "status page"[1] seems to suggest it would work.  Maybe the latest 
version has improved things since you tried it...

Cheers,
mark

[1] http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/status.html


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