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VirtualBox 2.1 Supports 64-Bit VM In 32-Bit Host

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the big-box-inside-a-little-box dept.

Stephen Birch writes "Following closely behind the mid-November 2.06 release of VirtualBox, Sun Microsystems has released version 2.1. This has a number of new features, but one of the most interesting is the ability to run a 64-bit VM inside a 32-bit host. Another useful feature is integrated host-based networking; no more fiddling around with network bridges. Sun is really giving VMWare a run for their money."

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  1. what about performance fall off? by flyingpastor · · Score: 4, Funny

    Would a 32 bit emulating a 64 be like a fat man in the 200m dash?

  2. Great, needed this as of last week.. by ehaggis · · Score: 4, Funny

    I can't justify purchasing a 64 box for the house, but a beefed up 32 running 64 virtually is just the ticket to get SAP on Linux up and running. Merry Christmas to me!

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    1. Re:Great, needed this as of last week.. by megamerican · · Score: 4, Funny

      Getting SAP at home for Christmas is worse than getting beat over the head with a stocking full of coal.

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    2. Re:Great, needed this as of last week.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      This is perfect. My 64bit laptop is running a corporate mandated 32bit XP Pro SP3. About time I get to use >1.25GB of heap for Java.

    3. Re:Great, needed this as of last week.. by Gerzel · · Score: 3, Funny

      Give the market a few years and the cost of the fossil fuels will make the stocking worth it.

    4. Re:Great, needed this as of last week.. by genner · · Score: 3, Funny

      Getting SAP at home for Christmas is worse than getting beat over the head with a stocking full of coal.

      Could be worse......Microsoft Small Business Manager anyone?

    5. Re:Great, needed this as of last week.. by Gyga · · Score: 4, Funny

      He never said that you got to keep the coal.

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  3. Re:How to Install Virtualbox 2.1 in Ubuntu by Trahloc · · Score: 3, Funny

    Did I just see the words "double click" in reference to an install on a linux box? ... I feel soiled.

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  4. Re:How to Install Virtualbox 2.1 in Ubuntu by moonbender · · Score: 3, Funny

    Odd. I feel spoiled.

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  5. Re:.. and .. I bet VMware and ms are muttering... by davidsyes · · Score: 4, Funny

    SUN of a BITCH....

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  6. QEMU by morgauo · · Score: 2, Funny

    As far as I can tell, it's just a free as in beer version of free as in speech + beer QEMU.

    How long before it comes out that virtualbox actually is QEMU, with a Sun sticker on it?

  7. Re:How to Install Virtualbox 2.1 in Ubuntu by kefler · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Let's try to limit the Wikipedia notion that knowledge and trivia are the same thing."
    I beg to differ:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trivia

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge

  8. Re:Virtualbox is superior to VMware by MMC+Monster · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Snappy" is a fine term to use. I read it all the time in the High Definition Theater magazine reviews.

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  9. Re:.. and .. by 0xygen · · Score: 2, Funny

    He said gaming, not retro-gaming.

    SM2.0? Welcome to five years ago.

  10. Re:.. and .. by Tubal-Cain · · Score: 2, Funny

    In integrated desktop mode I'd like to make the windows taskbar and windows look more gnome like and scrap the bottom taskbar for gnome.

    Some poor souls use KDE, you insensitive clod!

    (such as Linus)

  11. emulator by rajafarian · · Score: 2, Funny

    Another way to put it is that it *emulates* the behavior of those APIs.

    You use that word a lot. I don't think it means what you think it means.

  12. Re:How to Install Virtualbox 2.1 in Ubuntu by operagost · · Score: 2, Funny

    It just ain't right unless vi is involved!

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