From: Stewart Berman on
VirtualBox (free from Sun) will let you run an x64 OS using a Windows 7
host. I currently run Windows 7 Ultimate x64 VMs on a host machine running
Windows 7 Ultimate.

"Phillip Windell" <philwindell(a)hotmail.com> wrote:

>"Bill Grant" <not.available(a)online> wrote in message
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>> As a follow-up to Phillip's post, no version of VPC or Virtual Server
>> will run 64-bit guests (not even the new one in Windows 7). Hyper-V is the
>> only Microsoft virtualization system which runs 64-bit guests.
>
>Bummer,....MS still doesn't seem to have much "focus" on VPC as a product.
>They just finally got around to giving it USB ability.
>
>> Server 2008 certainly has a 32-bit version. From 2008 R2 on, the server
>> OS will be 64-bit only.
>
>Ok. Thanks for the clarification there, Bill.