Yes, with a performance hit, it is possible, at least with Virtualbox to install a 64-bit OS on a 32-bit host. Mileage varies based on the host and guest. I’ve pulled it off a few times. I don’t know however if you can run apps that require 64-bit in such a guest without issue.
As for the other way around, I’ve never had an issue, but then I also didn’t have the situation of the host not supporting 32-bit apps either. It’s worth a shot I suppose to see if older but still functional hardware can be extended on life support a bit longer. Regards, Adrien > On Jan 26, 2018, at 6:46 AM, Robert Heller <hel...@deepsoft.com> wrote: > > At Thu, 25 Jan 2018 23:52:00 -0600 Adrien Monteleone > <adrien.montele...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> Thanks for the heads-up. (I still have a Snow Leopard Macbook, but don’t >> use it for GnuCash any longer) >> >> Any reason to think a 32-bit vm to run 2.6.x if needed on 10.14 or a 64-bit >> vm to run 2.7/3.0 on older Macs wouldn’t handle those hopefully few cases? >> (other than maybe a performance hit that is) > > Is it possible to run a 64-bit VM on 32-bit hardware? I suspect not. > > Note: with Linux/KVM (don't know about other VM systems), you don't actually > get a "32-bit" VM -- all VMs are 64-bit, just like the host -- you just > install a 32-bit O/S on the 64-bit machine. A 32-bit OS installed on a > 64-bit > machine (VM or bare metal) behaves like it was installed on a i686 w/PAE. At > least that is the case of Linux. I have no clue what MacOSX will do if you > try to install a 32-bit incarnation on 64-bit hardware (unless it is a really > old version of MacOSX). I guess you could always install a 32-bit version of > Linux (not really sure why -- even though RH dropped 32-bit *kernels* from > CentOS 7, 32-bit applications can still be run on CentOS 7 -- I would guess > the same would be true of Ubuntu if/when they stops being 32-bit kernels for > Ubuntu). > >> >> Regards, >> Adrien >> >>> On Jan 25, 2018, at 11:11 PM, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: >>> >>> On the off chance that anyone else is running a Mac with Developer Beta >>> MacOS installed, the latest developer beta will put up the attached dialog >>> when you launch Gnucash 2.6.x. What it means is that MacOS 10.14 (they’ll >>> announce the name at WWDC in June) won’t support 32-bit applications. >>> >>> GnuCash.app 2.7.x is 64-bit and won’t have a problem. That also means that >>> it won’t work for the (one hopes very few) users who still have 32-bit >>> Macs. It actually won’t support anything older than MacOS X 10.9 >>> (Mavericks) which will shut out a few of the early 64-bit Macs as well. >>> >>> Regards, >>> John Ralls >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> gnucash-user mailing list >>> gnucash-user@gnucash.org >>> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >>> ----- >>> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >>> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-user mailing list >> gnucash-user@gnucash.org >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >> ----- >> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. >> >> > > -- > Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 > Deepwoods Software -- Custom Software Services > http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Linux Administration Services > hel...@deepsoft.com -- Webhosting Services _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
