Re: [ubuntu-uk] Virtualbox Advice

2014-03-04 Thread Matt Wheeler
On 3 March 2014 12:56, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote: I did not know that TBH I can't see why you'd want it; it's going to be slow, inefficient and since the main point of x86-64 is access to more memory a 32-bit host cannot provide this, it seems rather pointless. But I sit

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Should ubuntu play DVDs gratis? [OFF TOPIC]

2014-03-04 Thread alan c
On 02/03/14 12:40, Nigel Verity wrote: Hi The implementation of the law in the UK is already a laughing stock. I think it would move into another league if an attempt were ever made to prosecute somebody for using libdvdcss2. I would just install and be damned. Nige OFF TOPIC:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Virtualbox Advice

2014-03-04 Thread Liam Proven
On 4 March 2014 11:28, Matt Wheeler m...@funkyhat.org wrote: Actually the way this works is using the proper hardware virtualisation capabilities of the CPU, so the performance will be the same as running on a 64bit host OS. It's not possible to run a 64bit guest on a host system without VT-x