Is there a way I can run Ubuntu x64 or other Linux Distro in Virtualbox or another free Virtual Machine?
Tuesday, December 14th, 2010 at
00:11
I have a windows XP 32bit, but I really need to run 64bit Linux Applications without installing a second OS.
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Here is an interesting discussion of the topic and some good links to see if your system can do it.
Try Virtualbox http://www.start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1340&Itemid=73
Installing Ubuntu inside Windows using VirtualBox
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/virtualbox
Download Ubuntu Desktop Edition
http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/download
Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) User Guide
http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Maverick
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a 64 bit version of a virtualisation software in only going to run on a 64 bit machine ontop of a 64 bit OS (!).
even if your hardware might actually be 64 bit (even my nettop is…) the XP 32 bits will not let you run any 64 bit software, no matter what’s the underlying hardware architecture.
you need to install a 64 bit version of LostDOS 7 (@ least Home edition b/c the cheaper ones don’t support virtualisation @ all; even home has limited support only so you need the Ultimate version i think).
furthermore the 64 bit version of VirtualBox has problems supporting recent (kernel version = or > 2.6.30 ) Linux guests in 64 bit mode; @ least on a Linux host.
you can use the 64 bit version of Vi.Box to run 32 bit Linux distros or 64 bit versions of LostDOS all right, though.
thus you may have to use VMWare instead
but beside of all this technical crap, why do you need 64 bit versions of Linux?
if it is to run 64 bit software versions of specific software, the still limited hardware support in virtualisation software, certainly when it is running on top of another OS are not the best platform for this.
and if you need to handle huge volumes of data or require high performances, a hosted virtualisation (thus running on another OS) is not suited neither. you need either VMWare ESX or Xen (dedicated virtualisation) for this.
the only circumstance where this makes sense would be to compile 64 bit software (which is somewhat performance related, but that’s up to you).