Mark Wymer wrote: > Hi, (hope this is the correct forum) > I've just installed Opensolaris 2009.06 with no obvious problems. I then > installed VirtualBox 3, again, with no obvious problems. When I tried to > install Windows XP in a virtual machine I had all sorts of problems. Hunting > around I noticed that VB was starting the amd64 version! I checked various > bits and noticed that the OS seems to think it's instruction set is for the > AMD64 not the i386 that I've got. Am I a) missing something or b) > over-reacting and misreading the output from the following:-
"amd64" indicates that your kernel is running in 64-bit mode; i386 would mean 32-bit mode - there's a history to the naming which I can't recall in exact detail, but as long as you're not desperate to have your box run in 32-bit mode (and don't notice any problems related to this), you should be fine. HTH Michael > > root at gandalf:~# uname -a > SunOS gandalf 5.11 snv_111b i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris > > root at gandalf:~# prtdiag -v | head -8 > System Configuration: System manufacturer P5KC > BIOS Configuration: American Megatrends Inc. 0804 10/30/2007 > > ==== Processor Sockets ==================================== > > Version Location Tag > -------------------------------- -------------------------- > Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6850 @ 3.00GHz LGA775 > > root at gandalf:~# isainfo > amd64 i386 > > root at gandalf:~# isainfo -k > amd64 > > Is there anything else I should be looking at or any way to force the OS into > i386 'mode'? > > Thanks, Mark -- Michael Schuster http://blogs.sun.com/recursion Recursion, n.: see 'Recursion'
