Re: [vserver] Preconditions for Debian Lenny 64bit Host with 32/64 bit guests?

From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert_at_13thfloor.at>
Date: Mon 17 May 2010 - 15:11:09 BST
Message-ID: <20100517141109.GB12781@MAIL.13thfloor.at>

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 06:43:41PM +0100, ben@bristolwireless.net wrote:
> Quoting "Adrian Reyer" <are@lihas.de>:
>
> >On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:54:48AM +0200, Markus Fischer wrote:
> >>Will there be problems running guests in 32bit, just in case it
> >>would be necessary?

> >Just do it, works fine here.
> >I suggest the 2.6.32 Kernels, though, 2.6.26 is believed to be broken
> >and despite it works fine on some machines here, it doesn't on some
> >others.
> >

> Hi,

> for a 32-bit guest on a 64-bit I would add that you may want to set
> the /etc/vservers/<guest name>/uts/machine file to something like i686
> in order for compiling on that guest to go well.

actually you want to set the personality to 32bit
so that not just compiling works fine :)
(i.e. setting machine is the wrong approach)

best,
Herbert

> The 2.6.26 kernel in Lenny is broken in the ways recorded here:
> http://linux-vserver.org/Installation_on_Debian#Issues_with_the_current_2.6.26_Kernel

> Cheers,
> ==
> From Ben Green
Received on Mon May 17 15:11:24 2010

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