I've read previous threads about this issue, but none seemed to help.  I'm running a 64bit version of Windows 10 on a HP Elitebook. I've installed VirtualBox and wanted to create a 64bit Linux VM. However, I can only select 32bit OS'es in VirtualBox.  In the BIOS, I've got both VT-x and VT-d enable, and I've disabled HyperV in Windows, but I still don't have the option to select a 64bit OS.  What am I doing wrong?
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I have downloaded and installed the newest  for my Windows 7 (64-bit OS), but when I want to install 64-bit Linux, the New->Create Virtual Machine only displays 32-bit option, no 64-bit option. Could anyone give any clues about this issue? Thanks very much in advance!
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As the title says, is there a way of running a x64 bit program on a 32 bit system ? If not, is there an emulator or is there a way of upgrading from 32 bit to 64 bit for free?  NOTE: I am using Windows 10.
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I have an Intel E7300 Core2 Duo processor with 2.66GHz speed. I need to run a 64-bit WinXP SP2 VMWare image. My host operating system is Win 7. So I just installed the VMPlayer from www.vmware.com.  The problem is when I run the VM image it says This host doesn't support VT.  If I continue I see Windows shows an error message saying     Attempting to load an x64 operating system, however this CPU is not compatible with x64 mode.   My question is how do I run this VM without buying a new processor? Any other tools or software?
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I've got a Windows 10 Computer (home edition), which has 4GB of Ram and an i5 processor. I need to run an old 32 bit accounting programme. The vendor said it won't release a 64 bit version (although a 64bit version exists, it's missing key features from the older version).  The programme installs fine, but when I click on the programme icon, it says the programme won't work on a 64 bit system.   What options do I have?    I've done a fair bit of research, but it seems to run up dead ends.   1) WoW64     Apparently, this is supposed to let you run 32 bits on 64 bit Windows. However, I am not sure how to install it. I think it's for web servers only. However,  says it can work on Windows 7, but doesn't explain how to set it up (or if it will work on Windows 10).  2) XP mode     A 32bit Windows XP emulator. However, it seems to be for Windows 7 only. Also according to this , you need Windows Professional.   3) Virtual Box Machine    Let's you emulate Windows. Seems overkill for my purposes. Plus I would need to buy a 32 bit Windows license. I think it would run slowly with 4GB of Ram.  4) Partition drive into 32bit and 64 bit versions Apparently, you can use the free tool  to split the drive into two and then install separate 32bit and 64 bit versions.   Again, seems overkill and it looks like I would need buy a 32 bit Windows 10 license.   Are these my only options?     Images  Installation    First run (From the error message I guess it's a 16-bit program)   Clicking on programme
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I have the ISO image file (that is, *.iso) and I am trying to boot my  installation with this image. Is it possible? I know how to mount my ISO image to my filesystem (on my host machine), but I don't think VirtualBox boots an OS from a location on my file system.  I've even tried to mimic mounting, such that VirtualBox thinks it has to boot from the CD drive, but this failed.   What is the correct way to boot an OS from an ISO image in VirtualBox?  My host machine is Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) and my VirtualBox version is 4.1.4.
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I'm trying to boot Canonical's Azure 16.04 .vhd file in a VirtualBox VM and it hangs at "non blocking pool is initialized".  It works in Hyper-V, so it may only be a bug in virtual box (5.0.20).
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Since making the full time move to using Linux (Fedora) from Windows, I've found the migration fairly easy and haven't had much disruption in how I do my work.  However, there are some games I like to play such as Football Manager and some older games which rely on 3D rendering (either software or hardware). At the moment I have a VirtualBox VM running Windows XP and 95% of the games I've installed on this have failed to run due to problems with the graphics card (the virtual graphics card).  What I would like to do is get the VM to use the laptop's actual physical graphics card directly, or something similar. I know there is a performance issue, but most of the games I play are over 5 years old and I'm not bothered about graphic quality etc. I just want it to work.  I don't have to use VirtualBox, I just used it because I'm used to it. If VMWare or another virtual technology is a better option than VirtualBox then I will use it.
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I have been using VMWare on Windows for a long time. But after a long wait, I moved to VirtualBox on Ubuntu 11.10. I installed Ubuntu, 32 Bit, installed all available updates and installed Virtual Box. When I try to create a new Windows installation inside VirtualBox, I got the following error messages.  VirtualBox - Error  Failed to open a session for the virtual machine Windows XP. The virtual machine '**Windows XP**' has terminated unexpectedly during startup with exit code 1. Details  Result Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005) Component: Machine Interface: IMachine {5eaa9319-62fc-4b0a-843c-0cb1940f8a91}   2nd error dialogue  Virtualbox - Error in suplibOsinit Kernal driver not installed (rc--1908) Please install the virtualbox-dkmbs package and execute 'modprobe vboxdrv' as root.    I have already tried reinstalling VirtualBox. Google result seem to indicate the the problem happens due to Kernel updates.   Is there anyway I can get this working? I need this for malware analysis and if VirtualBox is going to crash on me all the time, then I won't be able to use Ubuntu for work.  Output to dpkg -l | grep virtual   server rc  virtualbox                             4.1.2-dfsg-1ubuntu1                     x86 virtualization solution - base binaries rc  virtualbox-qt                          4.1.2-dfsg-1ubuntu1                     x86 virtualization solution - Qt based user interface  cute 'modprobe vboxdrv' as root.&lt;p&gt;
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I'm currently running Windows 8.1 x64 (a problem in itself that I can't change sadly ;-P) with the latest version of VirtualBox (4.3.18 r96516). I managed to get the server version up and running with no issues but I cannot get the desktop version running.   I can boot to the menu and start the process (select the option to install and/or try) and it will get through the inital Ubuntu 14.10 loading screen (with the progess "bar/dots") but then we get to a nasty screen of distorted colors and that's it.   My hypothesis is that the display driver/server isn't working with VirtualBox and what I'm essentially seeing is the display in a crappy mode (16colors@62x24) because I am able to see a perfectly fine screen with cursor working and everything and then suddenly I'm in that nasty screen. The mouse does show up (nasty looking and filling the entire screen) but nothing else.   Here is a screenshot:    Here are my settings in an album (I can add more if desired but I put in what I thought were the most relevant):
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I would like to create a virtual device in Android Studio but I can't because hardware acceleration is disabled.  I went to the BIOS and there are two option :  AMD-SVM AMD-IOMMU   Both are enabled.  I also downloaded the HAXM installer from the SDK manager and tried to run it from the   C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\extras\intel\Hardware_Accelerated_Execution_Manager  with intelhaxm-android file.  I got an error telling me :   This computer does not support Intel Virtualization technology VT X or it is exclusively used by Hyper V. HAXM cannot be installed. Please ensure that hyper V is disabled in windows feature   It makes sense that I can't activate Intel Virtualization technology because I have AMD Ryzen 7 2700U.  With my previous computer it worked just fine but I had an Intel processor.  Some tutorials online suggested to enable windows Hyper-V feature but it's only available for windows 10 pro.  Does anyone know a way to activate hardware acceleration with AMD processor and without Hyper-V feature?
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My Windows XP installation has become unusable for some unknown reason. Since Microsoft is going to end support in a few days anyway, I decided to install Linux Mint.  For optimal hardware utilization, I want to use a 64-bit system if possible. However, since XP isn't working it's not possible to .  Therefore, I want to use the BIOS to find it out.  What information in the BIOS should I use to determine whether or not my I can install a 64-bit operating system?
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Is it possible to run a 64-bit OS as a guest on a 64-bit machine with VirtualBox? I'm guessing it should be, but I'd like to make sure.  Do some virtualization technologies allow a single guest machine to use multiple cores? I guess it should be possible, but my VirtualBox open-source edition doesn't seem to do it.
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Recently I started having an issue with VT-x on my Windows 10 running on HP EliteBook. I was using Oracle VirtualBox to run some VMs on it before and VT-x was enabled in BIOS and was working fine.  I started getting VT-x is not available error every time I was trying to start any of my VMs. That started happening after I installed Docker on my machine, so I tried uninstalling it and rebooting. Didn't help.  I checked BIOS settings and it says VT-x is enabled but checking with Intel(R) Processor Identification Utility shows that VT-x is not supported and Oracle VirtualBox also doesn't see it.  There were no hardware changes and the only software change was installing/uninstalling Docker.  How can this issue be fixed?
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I'm having some problems getting Ubuntu to install. I'm running Windows XP Home (32bit) on an older Dell Dimension 2350 with 1GB ram, trying to install either Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (32Bit) or 13.04 (32Bit) inside VirtualBox. Both versions of Ubuntu don't make it past the purple screen with the loading dots. When I change over to the "non-graphical" version, with the scrolling text, it starts to list a series of tests that are either [ok] or [fail]. There are only a few that fail, and my search on those indicates that they're not that important. There are a few settings for this VM that I've tried tweaking based on other searches for an answer (such as Enabling IO APIC, switching the Chipset to ICH9, changing the Video Memory size, Enabling 3D Acceleration, and Enabling PAE/NX. More or less, I get to the same point.  (Once I got to the screen with Desktop in the upper left corner, and the red-ish background. But an error came up that basically said there was an error, and that I could send off a report or hit cancel. I hit cancel, and instead of the installer coming up, nothing happened)  The last check that is run is "Stopping System V runlevel compatibility [ok], and a bunch of Starting [ok]s. Then I get a black screen, then a half purple half black screen graphical error. Sorta looks like snow, I don't know how else to describe it. After a while. That goes away and is replaced by a black screen again. Nothing else happens.    I like to think I'm fairly good at solving problems and following instructions, but I don't even know how to go about diagnosing this. Most of the solutions I've seen seem to involve entering things into a command line, but doesn't the OS have to be installed to be able to do that?  This is a for fun/learning experience project, so it's nothing too pertinent. But I would like to figure this out.
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I was trying to install Ubuntu 12.04 in VirtualBox 4.2.12r84980. I see    this kernel requires an x86-64 CPU, but only detects an i686 CPU, unable to boot   But I am using a 64 bit Windows 8, and trying same .iso for trying Ubuntu. Then what is the problem?
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I have a Windows XP laptop, in which I run VirtualBox with the latest Ubuntu, my hardware is little old, so running the latest version of Ubuntu inside Virtual box is kind of a hassle, very slow performances, even if all i'm doing is running the terminal and practicing Linux commands !  I tried DSL (Damn Small Linux) with my VirtualBox, very small distro (50 MB), I am satisfied with how faster is my system now, but I miss Ubuntu, moreover, DSL is missing too many commands, such as sed an many others that I can't remember.  Is it possible to run Ubuntu just in console mode, no GUI or minimum GUI...no nice effects no fancy graphics? A link / tutorial would be much appreciated.
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How can I find out whether my install of Windows (specifically XP and Vista) is either 32 or 64 bit?  Additionally, how can I find out if my hardware will support a 64-bit operating system?