I downloaded VirtualBox to a windows 8.1 machine by selecting the Windows (32-bit/64-bit) installer option at this link on the Oracle web ste. But when I try to create a new Virtual Machine using resulting VirtualBox, all of the Linux options are 32 bit.
How can I get VirtualBox to set up a 64 bit CentOS 7 virtual machine? Do I need to download a different installer? Or is the problem that I am not using this installer correctly?
Best Answer
Assuming you have a 64-bit CPU, then one would need to enable VT-x/AMD-v in the BIOS of the host computer. After enabling the virtualization features in the BIOS, VirtualBox can be obtained from www.virtualbox.org.
I don't know if the feature for installing a 64-bit guest will just appear in VirtualBox after enabling virtualization. Maybe a re-install might be needed.