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

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 05:49:58PM +0000, Rhonda Kern wrote:
> I am trying to create a virtual machine on a 64 bit RHEL 6 machine.
> There are 4 processors on the host and 24G of RAM.  I will be
> running an old version of redhat 7.3 as the guest o/s.
                            ^^^^^^^^^^

Unfortunately this isn't going to work.  KVM does not emulate some
peculiarities of the hardware that old RHL relies on.  I've tried it
in the past .. it's a no go.

Rich.

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