"Robert Clipsham" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > On 08/05/2011 01:05, Nick Sabalausky wrote: >>> You won't be able to run the resulting binary of course. >> >> Aww, shucks ;) There go my plans of a software-based CPU upgrade! > > Check out QEMU, it will let you run a virtualized 64 bit operating system > on 32 bit hardware, same for arm and a number of other cpu architectures. > It's been a while since I used it, could do what you want though. I > believe there's an extras package for it if you're on Ubuntu which adds a > load of architectures if it's not available by default. Also make sure to > get the kvm package if your hardware supports it, it'll give a significant > speed boost. >
Wow, I'm genuinely surprised anyone's even bothered to make anything that can emulate 64-bit on 32-bit hardware.
