On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 11:36 PM, Bill Kenworthy <bi...@iinet.net.au> wrote: > On Mon, 2012-07-16 at 19:52 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On 7/16/12, Nilesh Govindrajan <cont...@nileshgr.com> wrote: >> > So the same old query again I guess. >> > What architecture should I use for a machine with 3GB RAM and a 64bit >> > processor? >> > >> > I believe 64bit should be given serious consideration only if RAM is gt or >> > = 4 GB, even there 32bit is allowable with PAE if I'm not wrong. >> > >> > So what is recommended? There are as such no special use cases to go 64bit >> > for me. >> > >> >> Why 32? ... Flash, win32 codecs, probably Wine but not sure as it has >> been years... >> >> Why 64? ... Virtualization... >> >> Depends on what you want and/or need. >> >> HTH, >> Mark >> > > Virtualisation ? I am running qemu (windows, gentoo), vbox (windows, > gentoo, fedora) and gxemul (ultrix) all 32 bit guests on 32 bit systems > on either 32 or 64 bit hardware running gentoo - can you confirm you > need 64bit for 64bit guests as I will be moving that way eventually? > > That being said, I think for future proofing 64bit is the way to go, I > can see a time when 32bit is going to get deprecated.
If you want hardware-accelerated virtualization, you will need to run a 64-bit host if you want to run a 64-bit guest. That much I know. >From my experience on Windows, I can note that you can use hardware-accelerated virtualization of 32-bit guests on both 32-bit and 64-bit hosts. These are just properties of the hardware; there's nothing special about Linux or Windows in this regard. -- :wq
