VirtualBox and VMWare are great virtualization software allowing you to easily run virtual operating systems on your machine.
Creating a new virtual machine is an easy task. You create a new virtual machine, set some parameters and you are ready to go. You get a new place to install any operating system of your choice.
Sometime we would like to install 64bit operating system. 64bit operating system, can take advantage of 64bit machine and do some of the operations almost twice faster than 32bit. Todays modern computers are mostly support 64bits. If your machine support 64bit, it means you can install 64bit operating system on it. Buy, it doesn’t mean you can install 64bit operating in a virtual environment. In order to be able to run 64bit operating system on VirtualBox and VMWare you should have a machine that support it. Running a 64bit operating system in a virtual environment requires hardware level support.
VMWare made a small utility that helps you to check if your machine supports installing 64bit operating systems.
The tool is called: Processor Check for 64-Bit Compatibility and you can find on this link.
If your machine allows you to run 64bit operating systems on virtual machines you will get this message:
And if your if your machine doesn’t allow you to run 64bit operating systems on virtual machines you will get this message:
Note that I run this utility on 2 different machines, both are 64bit capable, both have Windows 7 64bit installed. One machine allows running 64bit operating systems on virtual machines and one doesn’t allow.
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