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Hi,

I have BackTrack 4 installed on the harddrive of my 32-bit system. I wanted to install VirtualBox on Backtrack inorder to create the following two virtual machines:

• BackTrack 5
• Windows XP

However, I noticed that all of the VirtualBox Linux distributions are AMD64. Does this mean that the VirtualBox distros would not work on my 32-bit system? If they would, which one should I choose?

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I am not sure of why you think that VirtualBox is only for AMD64, all the versions are available for i386 as well.

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Note: The package architecture has to match the Linux kernel architecture, that is, if you are running a 64-bit kernel, install the appropriate AMD64 package (it does not matter if you have an Intel or an AMD CPU). Mixed installations (e.g. Debian/Lenny ships an AMD64 kernel with 32-bit packages) are not supported. To install VirtualBox anyway you need to setup a 64-bit chroot environment.

Please choose the appropriate package for your Linux distribution:

* Ubuntu 11.04 ("Natty Narwhal") i386 | AMD64
* Ubuntu 10.10 ("Maverick Meerkat") i386 | AMD64
* Ubuntu 10.04 LTS ("Lucid Lynx") i386 | AMD64
* Ubuntu 9.10 ("Karmic Koala") i386 | AMD64
* Ubuntu 8.04 LTS ("Hardy Heron") i386 | AMD64
* Debian 6.0 ("Squeeze") i386 | AMD64
* Debian 5.0 ("Lenny") i386 | AMD64
* openSUSE 11.4 i386 | AMD64
* openSUSE 11.3 i386 | AMD64
* openSUSE 11.1 / 11.2 i386 | AMD64
* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (SLES11) i386 | AMD64
* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (SLES10) i386 | AMD64
* Fedora 15 ("Lovelock") i386 | AMD64
* Fedora 14 ("Laughlin") i386 | AMD64
* Fedora 13 ("Goddard") i386 | AMD64
* Mandriva 2010.0 / 2010.1 i386 | AMD64
* Mandriva 2009.1 i386 | AMD64
* Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 ("RHEL6") / Oracle Linux 6 ("OL6") i386 | AMD64
* Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 ("RHEL5") / Oracle Linux 5 ("OL5") / CentOS 5 i386 | AMD64
* Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 ("RHEL4") / Oracle Linux 4 ("OL4") / CentOS 4 i386
* Turbolinux 11 i386 | AMD64
* All distributions i386 | AMD64

You just need to seleect i386 OR AMD64, depending on what you are running.

[Kemasa]

I am not sure of why you think that VirtualBox is only for AMD64, all the versions are available for i386 as well.

VirtualBox Linux Downloads

Download VirtualBox for Linux Hosts
VirtualBox 4.0.10 for Linux

Note: The package architecture has to match the Linux kernel architecture, that is, if you are running a 64-bit kernel, install the appropriate AMD64 package (it does not matter if you have an Intel or an AMD CPU). Mixed installations (e.g. Debian/Lenny ships an AMD64 kernel with 32-bit packages) are not supported. To install VirtualBox anyway you need to setup a 64-bit chroot environment.

Please choose the appropriate package for your Linux distribution:

* Ubuntu 11.04 ("Natty Narwhal") i386 | AMD64
* Ubuntu 10.10 ("Maverick Meerkat") i386 | AMD64
* Ubuntu 10.04 LTS ("Lucid Lynx") i386 | AMD64
* Ubuntu 9.10 ("Karmic Koala") i386 | AMD64
* Ubuntu 8.04 LTS ("Hardy Heron") i386 | AMD64
* Debian 6.0 ("Squeeze") i386 | AMD64
* Debian 5.0 ("Lenny") i386 | AMD64
* openSUSE 11.4 i386 | AMD64
* openSUSE 11.3 i386 | AMD64
* openSUSE 11.1 / 11.2 i386 | AMD64
* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (SLES11) i386 | AMD64
* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (SLES10) i386 | AMD64
* Fedora 15 ("Lovelock") i386 | AMD64
* Fedora 14 ("Laughlin") i386 | AMD64
* Fedora 13 ("Goddard") i386 | AMD64
* Mandriva 2010.0 / 2010.1 i386 | AMD64
* Mandriva 2009.1 i386 | AMD64
* Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 ("RHEL6") / Oracle Linux 6 ("OL6") i386 | AMD64
* Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 ("RHEL5") / Oracle Linux 5 ("OL5") / CentOS 5 i386 | AMD64
* Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 ("RHEL4") / Oracle Linux 4 ("OL4") / CentOS 4 i386
* Turbolinux 11 i386 | AMD64
* All distributions i386 | AMD64

You just need to seleect i386 OR AMD64, depending on what you are running.