使用VirtualBox在32位操作系统下虚拟64位OS

操作系统为32位的Windows7，准备使用VirtualBox虚拟一个64位Windows Server 2008 R2的操作系统。VirtualBox设置完，启动后报“Attempting to load a 64-bit application, however this CPU is not compatible with 64-bit mode."的错误。



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File: \windows\system32\boot\winload.exe
Status: 0xc000035a
Info: Attempting to load a 64-bit application, however this CPU is not compatible with 64-bit mode.
从错误提示上看，报错是因为32位CPU无法支持64位的应用。

解决方法：
1.BIOS中启动VT-d特性，这是硬件虚拟化技术，让你的硬件支持类似于VirtualBox，VM等虚拟化技术，这个选项默认是Disabled，所以需要手动启动。
参考：http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch10.html#hwvirt

Since 2006, Intel and AMD processors have had support for so-called "hardware virtualization". This means that these processors can help VirtualBox to intercept potentially dangerous operations that a guest operating system may be attempting and also makes it easier to present virtual hardware to a virtual machine.
These hardware features differ between Intel and AMD processors. Intel named its technology VT-x; AMD calls theirs AMD-V. The Intel and AMD support for virtualization is very different in detail, but not very different in principle.



2.BIOS设置并重启后，直接启动VirtualBox中Windows 2008项，还是报之前同样的错误，最后发现是我的VirtualBox的版本（4.3.4）尽管有Windows 2008项，但好像不支持64bit，重新下载了新版本VirtualBox（4.3.10），并新建虚拟项就可以正常启动了。