On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 09:56, bardo <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi fellow TUs. > I'm happy to inform you that the new VirtualBox 2.1.0 finally added > support for 64bit guests on 32bit hosts. So if you always sticked to > arch32 because of lack of proprietary apps/lack fo time/fear of "those > new things"/whatever... now you have no more excuses =) > You can start contributing to arch64 today, just install a virtual > machine! I'm doing it myself now ;-) > > Cheers, > bardo >
It only works if you have a quite recent CPU with 64-bit & virtualization built-in. VMware however supports running 64-bit guests on 32-bit AMD CPUs without VT-x/AMD-V. -- Anders Bergh
