Re: 32-bit Kernel on 64-bit CPU?
On Friday, January 18, 2013 11:13, "Andrei POPESCU" <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> said:
> On Vi, 18 ian 13, 10:26:10, craig@gtek.biz wrote:
>>
>> I used the i386 net install image, and selected the (if I remember correctly)
>> i686-3.2.0-4-pae kernel. Are you saying that should have installed the 64-bit
>> kernel or that I got the 32-bit kernel I did't realize I was asking for?
>
> The 686-pae kernel is 32-bit, nothing strange here.
>
> However, in your OP you mentioned not being able to allocate more than 2
> GB with qemu. Unless this is some limitation of qemu it should have
> worked with the -686-pae kernel, which is why I thought the installer
> got the -486 (non-pae) kernel for you (which would have been a bug).
This is a problem with qemu. I seem to have missed the line about "except
64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts" Reloading with the amd64 iso image has
resolved the problems. I just allocated 3073 MB to a vm with no problem.
Thanks for your time!
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