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[Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jonathan,

I think that everyone missed what I mentioned. That is the virtualisation
of a 32 bit processor from a VM running on a 64 bit host. In kvm, i can
choose from various pentium models, basic kvm32 etc. etc. And whilst VM's
can never take the place of actual hardware, when we need some i386 iso's
testing to get them released, getting a VM to as near as to a 32 bit system
to try them on is far better than just 'ticking' the box and saying it
works.

Regards,

Phill.

On 24 July 2013 23:22, Jonathan Marsden <jmarsden@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Phill and Nio,
>
> >> You can run 32-bit code in a 64-bit environment (also in Virtualbox).
>
> Correct.
>
> >> But I think there is a switch for it somewhere in the settings.
>
> If there is, I have not needed to use it.  I run a mix of 32bit x86 and
> 64bit amd64 VMs all the time.  A couple of them run 24x7.
>
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013, at 02:45 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
>
> > I couldn't find the emulation under VBox, it may be in the 'extras'
> > package that I do not have installed.
>
> No, that's definitely not needed for running 32bit x86 code in
> VirtualBox.   You don't need to do anything special to install and run a
> 32bit x86 OS under 64bit amd64 VirtualBox.  It just works.
>
> Jonathan
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>   Jonathan Marsden
>   jmarsden@xxxxxxxxxxx
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