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chirpa
Mar 07, 2009Luminary
Running VirtualBox VM host on ReadyNAS Pro
What is VirtualBox? So, I got bored while laundry was going... and decided to see how well a virtual OS would run on the Pro. My first choice of VM was VirtualBox, just cause I'm familiar with it a...
sphardy1
Jun 16, 2011Apprentice
mdgm wrote: I would try the amd64 version then. Not sure why that needs to be used (I haven't installed VirtualBox personally). Hopefully someone can explain.
Because the original 64bit instruction set specification for x86 processors was actually created by AMD, not Intel. "AMD64" is just the naming convention used on debian based systems: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ ... onventions
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