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Old 05-29-2009   #2 (permalink)
David Wilkinson


 
 

Re: 2007 VPC to run Win7-64 bit?

jim-g wrote:
Quote:

> My machine is dual-quad 64 bit HP with Vista 32 bit Home-Ultimate on it
> and my first attempts to start up a 32 bit VHD. I'd like to try out
> Win7 on the VHD but don't know if it is dependent on the VPC being 64
> bit or whether the win7 runs off the hardware as 64 bit?
>
> If I have to, the 32 bit ver of Win7 can be downloaded to run.
Jim:

Virtual PC does not support 64-bit guests, even on 64-bit host OS.

VMWare workstation does support 64-bit guests, even on 32-bit host (provided CPU
is 64-bit of course).

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