On 17 March 2013 16:36, NightStrike wrote: > On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: >> On 17 March 2013 13:45, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>> You certainly could but that would mean that you'd be releasing untested >>> software for 64-bit. Is that something that we want to endorse or should >>> we have some way of validating this. >> >> This brings up an interesting point, in that I don't have access to a >> 64-bit machine to validate any packages I maintain. Would running a >> 64-bit version of Windows in VM (i.e. virtualbox) be acceptable? >> Having a cross-compiler would be a definite plus because I've found >> VMs to be incredibly slow, so it would be fine for validating but I >> wouldn't want to compile in a VM. > > If you don't actually have a 64-bit machine, then a VM will not help. > You can't virtualize a 64-bit guest on a 32-bit host with either > VMWare, VirtualBox, or VirtualPC.
Not all machines support it, thankfully my laptop does as I have done it in the past to test apps I have created under 64-bit. Cheers, Chris -- Chris Sutcliffe http://emergedesktop.org http://www.google.com/profiles/ir0nh34d
