Comment # 5 on bug 1037985 from James Fehlig

(In reply to John Connett from comment #4)
> I note from the best practices doc that "Because qemu-system-x86_64 usually
> also provides better performance for 32-bit guests, SUSE generally
> recommends using qemu-system-x86_64".

That note in section 3.2 is targeted for KVM installations. For Xen the
recommendation is to use qemu-system-i386 to maintain compatibility with the
upstream Xen community. I've sent a pull request to clarify that section of the
doc

https://github.com/SUSE/doc-sle/pull/136

Thanks for the feedback!