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Any suggestions how to get VB to allow 64 bit VMs on a win 7 64 bit host???? when creating any VM it will only give options for a 32 bit OS. I am also not able to get any larger display than a 640 X 480 but the size of the windows opened are larger than the 640 X 480.

the host machine is a Win 7 Pro 64 bit OS on an I7-4770K @3.5GHz with 16GB ram and 2GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760.

thanks for the tip..... i did check the bios and it says no support for VT-x and unfortunately it did not give any way to enable this feature. I did look around other sections of the menu but was not able to find anything that would lead me to be able to change the setting. So i guess im stuck with 32 bit VMs. Which isnt really that big a deal since im just learning linux anyway.

I was able to get the video settings fixed when i did an update on the distro i installed.

Welcome but, your CPU does support VT-x. Is this a Toshiba laptop?

no its not a lappy .... its an ASUS Z87 PRO MB in a desktop. if there is something i am missing please let me know. interesting thing is that the BIOS says no support for the VT-x but the ASUS AI suite software in windows says it does work.

well as the link mentions, some av software and others hog VT-x such as Bitdefender for one.

YIPPIE!!!!!!!!

went back and looked in the bios ..... found some settings that were hidden .... had to scroll down .... enabled virtualization and now i have the option on VB to use 64 bit !!!

thanks a bunch

yvw