On Tue, July 17, 2012 5:36 am, Bill Kenworthy wrote: <SNIPPED>
> Virtualisation ? I am running qemu (windows, gentoo), vbox (windows, > gentoo, fedora) and gxemul (ultrix) all 32 bit guests on 32 bit systems > on either 32 or 64 bit hardware running gentoo - can you confirm you > need 64bit for 64bit guests as I will be moving that way eventually? > > That being said, I think for future proofing 64bit is the way to go, I > can see a time when 32bit is going to get deprecated. In my experience: 32bit host : Only 32 bit guest 64bit host : 32 bit and 64 bit guest I have not been able to run a 64 bit guest on a 32 bit host. -- Joost