On 2/27/23 18:17, Jonathan Billings wrote:
On Feb 27, 2023, at 16:43, Samuel Sieb <samuel(a)sieb.net>
wrote:
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> On 2/27/23 04:48, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
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>> You don't need a 32 bit virt-p2v to virtualize a 32 bit system,
>> just use normal 64 bit virt-p2v.
>
> I was going to say the same thing until I realized that the original system was
32-bit only, so couldn't run the 64-bit p2v. At least that's my understanding
from the original post.
x86_64 CPUs are just x86_32 CPUs with a bunch of fancy extra features (to be slightly
inaccurate but mostly true). The CPU can drive an x86_32 OS, it just won’t be able to use
any of those fancy features.
You have the problem backwards. virt-p2v runs on the source system, so
if the source CPU is 32-bit only, then you have to run a 32-bit virt-p2v
executable. The resulting VM of course can run on a 64-bit host.