Actually, on Brazil sometimes it really becomes a dumb choice. Workstations or stronger machines per se, use 64 bits always, no brain. Personal daily use, also 64 bits *usually*. Specific uses, like some banking online systems (yes, believe it or not, some major bnk ones work on 32 bits but not on 64 bits, despite a perfect working 64 bits java environment for everything else, both online and offline!) or as sometime ago some webcams or printers (needed pipslite daemon, which is a bitch to compile!) sold here, sorry, go for 32 bits. PAE kernel usually, so that extra memory is accessible. Not sure how is the 11.4 doing with those issues. Yours, Jones On 3/24/11, Roger Oberholtzer <roger@opq.se> wrote:

On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 05:46 -0400, Michael Powell wrote:

...

Older 32 bit only processors [hardware] were made prior to the introduction of the requisite hardware virtualization extensions. Without these extensions this is not possible. When these extensions appeared in the processor instruction set it was also the same time processors became able

to run 64 and 32 bit code simultaneously. When I mentioned "32 bit only" I

meant processors from before this time frame; they will not run a 64 bit guest VM.

In my case, I have dual of these:

cpu family      : 6 model           : 15 model name      : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU          6600  @ 2.40GHz stepping        : 6 cpu MHz         : 1596.000

I have a feeling it is 64-bit. Time to check.

Yours sincerely,

Roger Oberholtzer

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