On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 14:39, Livnat Peer <lpeer@redhat.com> wrote:
On 12/09/2011 08:58 AM, Cristian Falcas wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to ask why is the ovirt-engine only available on 64bit platform
> in the repo? I successfully run the jboss from the
> repo and one compiled on a 32bit machine.
>

I don't recall any specific reason to require a 64bit machine for the
engine.
The 64bit is needed for the hypervisor thus for supporting the single
node use case (management + hypervisor on same machine).

Livnat

> For me it seems that this is a limitation: for small deployments, the
> engine can be setup on an already running machine.
> And that machine can be quite old, but it will cope with the engine very
> well.
>
> Best regards,
>   Cristian Falcas
>
>
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So could it be moved to noarch and let vdsm on x64? Should I open a bug?

Best regards,