About the architecture of Virtual-Machine

Question

System information:

Ubuntu SMP Thu Sep 16 16:05:42 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Virtual Marchine:

VirtualBox 3.1.6_OSE r59338 linux.amd64

I wanna to install a virtual system with x86-64 in Virtual Box,But it seemed that it is impossible to do this.

The virtual machine tips me it only detected an i686 CPU.

Is there any link between the architecture of host and that of the client virtual OS?

Answer 1

If you are not running a 64-bit operating system on your host, you wont be able to run a x64 bit operating system VM; however, you should be able to run a 32-bit VM on any host.