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Re: [Xen-users] Uname shows 64bits rather than 32 : yum problem. 32 bits

To: Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Uname shows 64bits rather than 32 : yum problem. 32 bits on dom0 64 bits is it possible ?
From: Pascal <ml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 13:56:31 +0200
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Thanks!

well....

some tell that with xen 3.0.3 it is impossible to install 32 bits guests on 64 bits dom0 !
They said that it is possible only with xen 3.1 !

Others tell it is !

Pascal

Goswin von Brederlow a écrit :
"Petersson, Mats" <Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx> writes:

  
 

    
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Pascal
Sent: 17 June 2007 17:43
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Subject: [Xen-users] Uname shows 64bits rather than 32 : yum 
problem. 32 bits on dom0 64 bits is it possible ?
...
I ask this becasue I have installed a 32bits guets but when I 
do a uname -a on the guest i have this :
Linux fqdn.domain.com 2.6.18-8.1.6.el5xen #1 SMP Thu Jun 14 
18:01:24 EDT 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

it looks like it shows exactly the same info than the dom0
      

It shows what it is supposed to show: The kernel you are running.
 
  
It is a problem because yum, on the guest, looks for 64bits 
packages rather than 386 ones
      

That would be a pretty stupid bug in yum then. I see nothing wrong
with running a 64bit kernel with 32bit userspace (as you do). That is
perfectly supported in Debian.
 
  
Si it normal ?
How to tell to yum to look for i386 ?
      

If yum really is so stupid that is uses uname then run "linux32
yum".

MfG
        Goswin

  
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