Re: [coLinux-users] is windows Server 2008 Enterprise 32-bit andcolinux possible?

[Christopher D. C. <ccl...@ac...>]

GuyBrush <guy...@gm...> wrote:
> According to Microsoft, Windows Server 2008 Enterprise 32-bit,
> supports up to 64 GB of ram.
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366778.aspx#physical_memory_limits_windows_server_2008
> Would Colinux work with it?
> Has anyone tried this?

If one had such a machine, why would they install the 32-bit OS?  Why 
would they not just install the 64-bit OS and run Hyper-V and run Linux 
in a VM where it would be significantly less likely to crash the system. 
(This assumes that any system that could support that much RAM also had 
the VT processor support to run HyperV.)

Also, I believe it was mentioned that coLinux itself has a hard limit of 
around 1GB of memory.  (I think this is a limitation upon how large a 
contiguous chunk of memory can be allocated by a kernel-level process on 
the 32-bit OS where the kernel itsel can only address 2GB and windows 
itself obviously needs some memory.)

I'm not authoritative on these statements though...

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