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Re:Change of scope and target market for i386 by chansecodina on Friday September 29, 2017 @05:24PM (#15369362)
Now I'm curious: Which hypervisor has that limitation?
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Re:Change of scope and target market for i386 by jmkni on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @05:43AM (#15391255)
It's more that any consumer grade processor seems to have this limitation.

I have an i7-6700HQ for example, and I can either have Hyper-V turned on (I'm on Windows) in which case I can only run 32-bit VM's with VirtualBox, or I can turn off Hyper-V in which case I can run one 64-bit VM on VirtualBox, and then only 32-bit VM's past that.

If I'm doing Android development, I can't run a 64-bit VM at the same time as the Android emulator is 64-bit.

Sometimes I want to run my web server, an Android VM, and maybe a Redis server on Ubuntu in a VM. I can't emulate Android and run a 64-bit VM, so the 32-bit Ubuntu distro is invaluable here.

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