Art Alexion on 17 Dec 2009 19:57:49 -0800


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Re: [PLUG] VirtualBox questions


On Thursday 17 December 2009 21:41:07 Sean Collins wrote:
> Now, in the case of an 64-bit host running on 32-bit hardware,  
> Virtualbox has to emulate quite a bit of instructions, that were added  
> when the AMD64 arch was introduced. So, not only are you emulating 32- 
> bit ring-0 instructions, you're emulating a whole AMD64 environment on  
> top of that.
> 

Well its 64 bit hardware, but a 32 bit Linux host.  Should the 64 bit hardware 
make a difference if the host OS is 32?

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Art Alexion

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