[Vm-dev] Prebuilt 64-bit VM on Linux?

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 10.04.2013, at 14:34, Igor Stasenko <siguctua at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 10 April 2013 23:11, Hernán Morales Durand <hernan.morales at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I have a 64-bit CentOS server and I want a to measure the peak memory usage with valgrind for a script. For that I need a 64-VM (with a 32-bit Pharo image).
>> I have tried with http://www.mirandabanda.org/files/Cog/VM/VM.r2714/coglinux-13.13.2714.tgz but file reports: "squeak: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, not stripped"
>> 
>> Is there any precompiled linux 64-bit binary available?
> 
> Welcome to the club "I want 64-bit VM". :)
> 
> I think at one day, this club will grow large enough to make
> "deliver 64-bit VM" task a top priority for VM devs (including me ;).


Well, you only ever hear the complaints from Linux users. That's because almost nobody *actually* needs 64 bits yet, but Linux forces it onto unsuspecting users anyway.

In any case, Dave has been doing a great job and 64 bit VMs are now included in the major Linux distros. People just need to start using them instead of installing their own VMs. But slowly we're getting there ...

- Bert -