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