Subject: Re: [vserver] Preconditions for Debian Lenny 64bit Host with 32/64 bit guests?
From: ben@bristolwireless.net
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 18:43:41 +0100
Tue, 11 May 2010 18:43:41 +0100
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.

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


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