Dear Steve,

Yes, you are correct! I will try a native installation (64bit) to test
the features you mention!

Stavros

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Steven Timm <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> You have 2 problems, at least.
> One--yes, qemu-kvm doesn't exist for 32-bit because
> 32-bit isn't supported for KVM.
> Second--you can't launch any KVM guest within another virtual machine.
> You can only have one level deep of KVM virtualization.
>
> With a 64-bit virtual kvm host, you should at least be able
> to test the features of the virtual machine manager that would
> allow you to talk to remote libvirts and xend's.
>
>
> Steve Timm
>
>
>
> On Sat, 12 May 2012, Stavros Filippidis wrote:
>
>> Dear SL users,
>>
>> I have installed an instance of SL6.2 i386 (the "Software Development"
>> flavor) as a guest in order to test it. I have given 2GB RAM and 128MB
>> VRAM+3D_acceleration to this guest. The problem is that although I get
>> Virtual Machine Manager installed, I am not able to use it because it
>> needs qemu-kvm package, which cannot be found! Could the problem be
>> that I use the 32bit (i386) version of SL6.2?
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Stavros
>>
>
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