No Windows systems passed Windows 2003 are in the drop down list. However if I included the term 64bit in the VM name then the VM icon changed to indicate 64bit. Regardless how incredible is the idea to run any operational system on your PC, it is still true. Hi -I loaded up virtual box and my host system is not a choice in the list. I can say this mostly confidently even though I have no connection to the VBox dev team. I installed my first 64bit VM the other day (Win7), and I noted at the time that when selecting the guest type from the dropdown there was no specific choice of 32bit vs 64bit. virtualbox will not be supporting current builds of windows 7, in 32 or 64 bits. Mpack wrote:Actually Perry, I have to say the same thing, and it puzzled me too until I realized that it meant nothing. In addition, for 64-bit Windows guests, you should make sure that the VM uses the Intel networking device, since there is no 64-bit driver support for the AMD PCNet card. Freely available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Solaris x86 platforms under GPLv3: Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic) / Ubuntu 18. I have checked this, but it doesnt seem to make any difference. Oracle VM VirtualBox Base Packages - 7.0.14. I do have to scroll down to see anything beyond Win2k3. This is especially true for 64-bit Windows VMs. Ps, I had and have no problem seeing Windows versions all the way up to Windows 8 in the drop down listbox. OTOH, I just checked with 4.1.0 and I see it does have separate selections for Windows 64bit versions for Win2k3 and later. The 64-bit version options should now be available as shown in the following screenshot. Next, launch VirtualBox and try to install a new guest OS. It doesn't require the correct setting of a 32bit vs 64bit option in the VM recipe.Įdit: Apparently I should add the additional requirement (d) IO APIC enabled ? After a reboot, log in to confirm that CPU virtualization support is now enabled, check your CPU settings using the lscpu command. Running a 64bit guest as far as I know requires (a) a 64bit host CPU, (b) VT-x, (c) install CD/DVD for 64bit guest. I guess it's kind of unimportant, since AFAIK there is no actual difference in the VM.
However if I included the term 64bit in the VM name then the VM icon changed to indicate 64bit.
I installed my first 64bit VM the other day (Win7), and I noted at the time that when selecting the guest type from the dropdown there was no specific choice of 32bit vs 64bit.
Actually Perry, I have to say the same thing, and it puzzled me too until I realized that it meant nothing.