Native x86/64 installation is no longer supported, use CHR to get access to all device drivers.
Huh? Source?
CHR has less hardware drivers than the bare-metal install does..
Perhaps somebody will actually dig out reference to the claim by @Larsa.
[edit] I see that @antonsb claims this is not true. However, there were many forum threads by users with problems with unsupported hardware, ranging from unsupported disk drives (e.g. SATA disks) to unsupported NICs (virtually all 10Gbps NICs fall into this category) and including support only for 32-bit installs (which imposes 2GB RAM limitation) and every time some MT staffer said that users should install CHR to overcome the problems. So in reality, x86 installs were not supported in the last 5 years (or more) even though officially x86 was not discontinued.
Traditional VM hypervisors didn't expose hardware directly to VMs, they provided pseudo hardware instead (e.g. virtio net NIC or IDE virtual disks) so CHR only needs to support those few virtual types of hardware. Recently VM hypervisors indeed started to support HW pass-through meaning VMs will have to support such hardware natively. With v7 there are better chances to see support for relatively recent hardware, with v6 this was lost case long ago due to hopelessly outdated kernel used (and I guess this was primary reason for practical discontinuation of support for bare-metal x86 / x64 installations).