A lot of people do get across this problem of their system not showing
x64bit among the list of OS in their VIRTUALIZATION SOFTWARES or Not
Functioning, and blame their OS, Processor, the system manufacturers, the
software and so on.
well this problem is mainly because of these three factors
● The Virtualization Technology is off from you BIOS
● The Virtualization software (Virtual Machine or Virtual Box) version is
32bit only.
● The Microsoft Virtualization software (Hyper V) is enabled
Virtualization Technology (VT), also known as Vanderpool, this technology
enables a CPU to behave as if you have several independent computers, in order
to allow many OS (operating systems) to run at the same time on same computer.
x86 = 32bit = i386
x64 = 64bit
What causes you to see 32bit list of operating system without the 64bit,
while you have 64bit OS running.
let's take these problems one after the other
VIRTUALIZATION TECHNOLOGY OFF
(How to turn on Virtualization Technology)
○ Turn off your computer completely
○ power it on
○ look for the appropriate button to press for BIOS menu, as show in most
boot screen "X" = boot menu
○ "X" represent the key indicate in your own boot screen, like in
mine is F2
○ After getting to boot menu check under security or Advance settings or any
other tab there for "Virtualization Technology" if using intel also
for "Intel Virtualization Technology"
○ use the appropriate button of enabling and enable it
○ press F10 to save changes and Exit
VIRTUALIZATION SOFTWARE IS 32bit
(How to get 64bit VM)
This problem is not common in Windows version of Virtualbox, because they
kind of have virtual box that work for both 32 and 64 bit,
but for those of you using other operating systems, especially Linux you will
need to download the 64bit version
of the Virtualbox before it could run 64bit OS virtually, so click to
download the x64bit as indicated in the picture below
[ HYPER V ] VIRTUALIZATION SOFTWARE IS ON
( How to turn off Hyper V )
● Click on start menu
● type: "program and features" to search
● click to open "program and features"
● on the left side of the windows look for "Turn Windows features on or
off"
● click on it
● uncheck "Hyper-V if " if checked.