Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] kvm 32bit guest on 64bit host

Hi Daniel, > > I want to manage a 32 bit i686 guest on an x86_64 host with kvm and > > libvirt. KVM is perfectly capable of doing this (look e.g. at > > http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/Guest_Support_Status) but libvirt did not > > allow it. > > > > So I created the attached patch to allow it and make it easy to extend > > the capabilities of kvm and kqemu later on. > > This is incorrect. KVM is *not* exposing a i686 architecture CPU. It is > exposing an x86_64 virtualized CPU which is capable of running x86_64 or > i686 guests. No change is required. Thanks for looking at my patch. I understand that KVM does not offer a i686 host cpu but allows x86_64 and i686 guests. The reason for my patch was that I could not create i686 guests on a x86_64 host with KVM, the only option offered was using qemu.