Installing Leap on Virtual Box

English Install/Boot/Login
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Hi,

I have already a few distros installed, with Leap I encountered a problem as follows: A popup that says “This is a 32 bit computer. You cannot use 64 bit software on it. Reboot” This computer is a 64 bit machine, also the Win7 host. Rebooting with no avail. What might be the problem?

Thanks a lot for your advice!

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When you created your VM, did you select “openSUSE 32-bit” or “openSUSE 64-bit”

TSU

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Hi,

For that error message I returned already to the download page and did not see 32 or 64 bit. Your reply implies that 32/64 bit are existing-I check that again.

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I went to that page:https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Download_help, but could not find 64 bit for Win7-could you tell where to find the right OS?
PS: Download is DVD x86_64

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When you create a Guest, you’re choosing the setting for the Guest, not the Host…
So, as I described no matter what might be your HostOS, you need to select “openSUSE 64-bit” not “Windows” anything…

TSU

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As ask in the German Subforum, ist the VirtualBox Win 7 Host Package a 32 Bit Software?

Host is Win7 64 bit
Virtualbox is ??bit
Leap is 64 bit

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I have 64-bit Virtualbox 5.0.10 (current fully updated as of this post) running on Win10 (only available in 64-bit) running 64-bit LEAP.

Inspecting the VBox download page, there is only one install binary available for Windows which is supposed to support both i586 and x64, which might be because AFAIK as long as you require CPU virt extensions to enable 64-bit support, the User Mode tools can be 32-bit (does not matter).

TSU

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ok, I missed that.

@susfan
What VirtualBox Version?

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It is 5.0.10

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Susfan,

I think that tsu2’s first question is the key.

In the VirtualBox program you had to create a virtual machine to instal Leap on. At that point you choose how much memory, cpu, network, etc to allocate to the virtual machine (the guest). Did you choose a 32-bit or 64-bit virtual cpu for the guest? Alternatively you could have chosen a pre-configured guest “template”, again with the choice of 32 or 64 bit. You can check and modify the properties of the VM using the VBox controls. Sorry that I cannot be more specific as I do not use the VBox graphical interace.

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Screenshot in the German Subforum…