Virtual PC - General Question

[Clifford Nelson]

One of the problems with running a 64 bit system under 32 bit is that 32 bit does not understand what is happening in 64 bit system. You could create one I guess, but why bother from the point of view of the people developing VM software. One of the big issues with VM's is that need lots of memory. You get above 3-4 gb, and the host (32 bit) os cannot handle more, so cannot allocate. With modern OS's, lots of memory is required, particularly 64 bit. I doubt you will have much luck finding recent generation VM software that is even going to run on 32 bit systems since they are considered obsolescent in higher end systems. Right now Hyper-V only supports 64-bit hosts. Virtual PC supports 32 bit and 64 bit hosts, but I think it only currently supports older OS’s, and only 32 bit What you might be able to do is have a 32 bit system running under the host 64 bit system, and then control the allocation of VM’s from the 32-bit system. Should be able to do this control using PowerShell 2.0. I know that Microsoft VMM does this function, but the current

[Tieske8]

I'm using VMware, running a base Win7 Pro 32bit, with a Win7 64bit VM on top of that.

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[Lost User]

In fact, yes, if the hardware supports it.