Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 9 Jun 2006 10:54:33 -0400 | Subject | Re: mixing 32 and 64 bit? | From | Lennart Sorensen <> |
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On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 11:18:56AM +0200, Dieter St?ken wrote: > I just wonder how some userland applications are able to use 64-bit > capabilities although they are started by an ELF 32-bit binary. I observed > this when installing vmware: Even if the binary is an ELF32, it is > able to provide an 64Bit ABI to its guest OS. Until now I thought a > process is either 32bit or 64bit. Seems this is not true. > > Has some one a good link or entry point about this topic? > I could not find a matching keyword to search for.
VMware also has some kernel modules, which are compiled in whatever format the kernel is. I suspect some of this ability comes from those kernel modules, rather than the user interface you use to control the vm.
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