On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 19:01:08 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> writes: > >> On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 23:15:53 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: >> >>> The only netinst iso I see that has anything to indicate it is 64 bit >>> is named amd64. So when a PC is running Intel64, is there a 64 bit >>> ISO for that? >> >> A PC can be running a 64-bits OS but that is not a guarantee that your >> VM can manage 64-bits guests. I would first read the manual of the >> involved VM software. > > According to Vbox documentation > (http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch03.html), it supports 64 bit guests > even when host is 32 bit. (under certain conditions)
Good. Then yes, I don't think you are going to have any problem with a 64- bit guest OS, I mean, no more problems than the usual ones :-) >>> I am installing Debian as guest in a vm running on win7 64 bit. Since >>> the ARCH is not amd, is there a 64 bit iso to use in that case? >> >> What kind of VM are we talking here? And what performance are you >> expecting to get? :-) > > I hoped to run a linux machine to interface with tarsnap. > > Now I've studied a bit more, I suspect either version of debian will be > fine. Yep, just note that if you are going for the 64-bits option (for the guest) ensure there is a 64-bits package for that application, or at least read the manual to look for any possible incompatibility with 64- bits OSes, just in case. > Far as performance, since the host is able to donate 4GB for the guest, > I'd expect it to be pretty good. > > (host is i7 8GB ram) Nice! :-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.06.24.12.04...@gmail.com
