On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Chris Sutcliffe <ir0nh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 17 March 2013 13:45, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> You certainly could but that would mean that you'd be releasing untested >> software for 64-bit. Is that something that we want to endorse or should >> we have some way of validating this. > > This brings up an interesting point, in that I don't have access to a > 64-bit machine to validate any packages I maintain. Would running a > 64-bit version of Windows in VM (i.e. virtualbox) be acceptable? > Having a cross-compiler would be a definite plus because I've found > VMs to be incredibly slow, so it would be fine for validating but I > wouldn't want to compile in a VM.
If you don't actually have a 64-bit machine, then a VM will not help. You can't virtualize a 64-bit guest on a 32-bit host with either VMWare, VirtualBox, or VirtualPC. Caveat -- the above statement is as of the last time I looked at it. Things always change.