On 09:48, Fri 01 Jan 10, Scott Ehrlich wrote: > I find it interesting that my 64-bit Dell Inspiron (I have successfully > installed 64-bit Ubuntu and 64-bit CentOS as hosts, reformatting the > hard drive between them), but yet 64-bit installs of vmware and > virtualbox complain the host will not allow a 64-bit OS to be > installed as a guest (I want to create 64-bit VMs). > > I'm going to also try Fedora and Solaris, but I don't expect it will > change much. > > Are both vmware and virtualbox simply not able to handle 64-bit OSes > yet for VMs, though I've seen posting claiming otherwise? >
One thing you might want to check in the BIOS is the execute bit disable flag. I can't remember if it needs to be toggled on or off, but I do remember that I needed to do that before I could get 64-bit guests to install on my system under VMware Workstation. -Rich _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
