[Users] ovirt-engine 32bit

Livnat Peer lpeer at redhat.com
Sun Dec 11 12:39:27 UTC 2011


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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