32 or 64 bit?

Steve yorvik.ubunto at googlemail.com
Sat Dec 5 13:21:32 UTC 2009


On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 12:25:26 -0000, Pedro Francisco  
<pedrogfrancisco at gmail.com> wrote:

> A P4 is 32 bit right?
>
> I'm only saying on *my* Core 2 Duo ( T5250 ) , though I haven't tested,
> I shouldn't be able to virtualize anything using a 64 bits host OS.
>
> I can, and do, virtualize on a 32 bit host OS.
>
> And that was a factor which stopped me from going 64 bits.
>
Sorry, you’re correct. I kanda miss understood.

 From Sun’s Virtualbox

You must enable hardware virtualization for the particular VM for which  
you want 64-bit support; software virtualization is not supported for  
64-bit VMs.

-- 
Steve




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