[virt-tools-list] RHEL 6 virt-install 64 bit host, 32 bit guest

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 10:22:55AM +0800, Colin Coe wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 1:11 AM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 05:05:51PM +0000, Rhonda Kern wrote:
> >> So I installed the 32 bit version only to discover there's no
> >> qemu-kvm.  Are there any options for getting RHEL 6 to run RH 7.3?
> >
> > At the moment, no there are not.  Contact Red Hat support about
> > the issue and let's see if we can do something that way.
> >
> > Rich.
> >
> > --
> > Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones
> > virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines.  Boot with a
> > live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests.
> > http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v
> >
> 
> Forgive the intrusion but I was in a similar boat a couple of years
> ago with some software that supposedly only ran on RH 7.3.  We ended
> up getting it to run on RHEL3 with the compat libraries.  I'd imagine
> that KVM on RHEL6 supports RHEL3...

Yes, RHEL 3 as a guest is supported.

Rich.

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Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones
virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines.  Boot with a
live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests.
http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v