Yes you can run a 64 Bit OS as a Virtual Machine on a 32 Bit OS and
the 64 bit client works fine.

I've done it with KVM and vmware both.

Brian

On Oct 5, 5:11 am, Kiall Mac Innes <[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't believe you can run 64bit guests on a 32bit host - I could be wrong
> though...
>
> Either way - 2.0 and up *do* compile on Ubuntu 64bit - If 3.0 requires 64bit
> then people will need to move to a 64bit build host....
>
> Thanks,
> Kiall
>
> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 12:42 AM, bmullan <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Can't you use KVM on your Ubuntu 32 bit system and just run a 64 Bit
> > Ubuntu as a VM ... and do your development in the VM ??
>
> > On Oct 4, 2:56 pm, Al Sutton <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Many people installed the 32 bit version of Ubuntu to compile Android 2.2
> > and below. The requirement for a 64 bit version of the OS means doing a
> > completely new install on any systems they want to build on with the
> > possibility of  having to set up dual boot if they want to work on 2.2 and
> > the next version.
>
> > > And that, Mr. Genius, certainly does have an impact on people.
>
> > > Al.
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> > > On 4 Oct 2010, at 19:49, a genius wrote:
>
> > > > Given that every computer sold these days (in the last several years,
> > > > in fact) more powerful than an INTEL ATOM has a 64bit processor, I
> > > > don't see how this could have any kind of impact on you. You certainly
> > > > aren't trying to build android on an atom, are you?
>
> > > > ... not that ANY of the rumors about android 3 are panning out.
>
> > > > On Sep 21, 2:45 pm, galib <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > >> I heard that in order to build Android 3.0 you need your build host
> > > >> computer to have a 64bit OS installed (similar to Chromium OS build
> > > >> requirement).
>
> > > >> Is this true?
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