Windows 32bit hosts

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marius_1956
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Windows 32bit hosts

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Which is the latest VirtualBox version supporting 32bit Windows hosts?
Which Windows 32bit hosts are supported?
Is there a table showing the 32bit Windows hosts supported by each VirtualBox version?
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Re: Windows 32bit hosts

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I believe that 5.2.# is the last for 32-bit hosts. That version's help manual will show the supported host OS's. See http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualb ... Manual.pdf, section 1.4
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Re: Windows 32bit hosts

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marius_1956 wrote:Which is the latest VirtualBox version supporting 32bit Windows hosts?
5.2.x, where x=34 as of this writing.
marius_1956 wrote:Which Windows 32bit hosts are supported?
According to the 5.2.34 User Manual:
  • Windows Server 2008 (64-bit)
  • Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit)
  • Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit)
  • Windows 8 (32-bit and 64-bit)
  • Windows 8.1 (32-bit and 64-bit)
  • Windows 10 RTM build 10240 (32-bit and 64-bit)
  • Windows Server 2012 (64-bit)
  • Windows Server 2012 R2 (64-bit)
  • Windows Server 2016 (64-bit)
  • [1] Support for 64-bit Windows was added with VirtualBox 1.5. Support for Windows XP was removed with VirtualBox 5.0. Support for Windows Vista was removed with VirtualBox 5.2.
But unofficially more Hosts could work...
marius_1956 wrote:Is there a table showing the 32bit Windows hosts supported by each VirtualBox version?
Not that I know of, the only sure way is to check the User Manual for each version.

Why don't we start with the most basic piece of information that's missing from your post; what's your Host?
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Re: Windows 32bit hosts

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socratis wrote:Support for Windows XP was removed with VirtualBox 5.0. ... But unofficially more Hosts could work...
From personal experience, though XP hosts were not supported, in fact they did work until well along the 5.0.x branch. I can't say exactly how far along because I upgraded to Win10-64bit around then.
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Re: Windows 32bit hosts

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And my Win7-32bit host was running VirtualBox 6.0.x fine until recently ( x=6 or 8 ), haven't tried it with the latest .14. But if it breaks, it's my problem, not a VirtualBox one, I was warned...
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