[Novalug] Fedora & VirtualBox

[Rich Goodwin]

Speed has not been an issue but then I have not yet stressed this fully.
Although with 8GB on the  machine, RAM should not be an issue.

Rich

On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 09:14 -0400, jerry w wrote:
> I recently got VirtualBox working on a 64 bit AMD processor...
> 
> It wasn't very fast and the mouse was not responding well,
> but it ran...
> 
> 
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 8:13 AM,  <rich.goodwin at cox.net> wrote:
> > I am using VirtualBox on an AMD Phenom 4 (64-bit quad processor) system running Ubuntu 8.10 as the main/host OS.  When I try to load Fedora x86-64, I get the processor is the wrong type. i686 is the recognized type.  When I use the amd64 bit iso, I get the same thing!  It works using the 32-bit i386 version.
> >
> > What I read indicates the ??_64 should work... "on most AMD processors."  Has anyone else seen this?  I encountered this early this morning and may not have had sufficient caffeine ... but it seemed a tad off.
> >
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