On Wed, Feb 08, 2023 at 07:17:16PM +0530, Lokesh Mandvekar wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 8, 2023 at 9:01 AM Kevin Kofler via devel
> <devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > Does dropping the 32-bit i686 build also imply you cannot use 32-bit
> > containers on a 64-bit architecture? If so, will anybody notice? Since you
> > did not use any special naming tricks (both package naming and file naming)
> > to allow installing both versions (as in, e.g., wine), one has to go out of
> > one's way to install the 32-bit version instead of the 64-bit one, and they
> > cannot both be installed at once.
> 
> Checked with the team and I'm told 32-bit containers on 64-bit arch
> should not be impacted.

More generally podman can run containers of foreign architectures using
qemu-user emulation, albeit with an obvious speed penalty. Still this
has been useful for testing issues on non-x86_64 arches where hardware
access is hard to come by.

With regards,
Daniel
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