Bug 446817
Summary: | Cannot choose KVM hypervisor for i686 on x86_64 | ||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Tim Niemueller <tim> |
Component: | virt-manager | Assignee: | Daniel Berrangé <berrange> |
Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 9 | CC: | crobinso, hbrock, michel |
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Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2008-05-16 11:53:48 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
Tim Niemueller
2008-05-16 09:53:19 UTC
If you want to install a 32-bit guest, just select x86_64+kvm which runs i386 guests just fine. The i386 selection is a true emulated i386 processor, which is not KVM accelerated. Ok, not obvious to me. Wouldn't it make sense to allow KVM for i686 and then in background create the x86_64 instance, meaning that it is "i686 compatible"? Having made the same error myself, I agree -- it might be a good idea to at least rename the options. Add to the x86_64 option "(32- and 64-bit)", and to i386 "(32-bit only)"? Speaking of which, since virt-manager already supports at least one true emulated processor, why not others? Would be nice to be able to try Fedora's ARM port from within virt-manager. (PS having a GUI interface to switch the emulated machine will be nice too. Currently there's no way short of editing config files) |