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Subject: Re: switching from i386 to amd64
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On Sun, 16 Dec 2012, Ralf Mardorf wrote:

> On Sun, 2012-12-16 at 05:35 -0600, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr wrote:
>> I'm running amd64 and it seems rock-solid and well supported.
>
> I had a similar question. I wanted to know if there are issues for
> audio, when using 64 bit and got this reply:
>
> "If you do not have a _specific_ requirement for 32 bit, use 64 bit, of
> course if you have a 64 bit CPU. :-)
>
> Specific requirements _could_ be wine and nVidia's proprietary GPU
> driver, as far as I know." - Polytropon (Btw. thank you Polytropon :)
>
> I guess in the web I read something about issues with VBox, but perhaps
> I'm confusing VBox with wine. I chose 64 bit and will stay with it, even
> if I should install another version of FreeBSD today.

VirtualBox works well with both i386 and amd64 hosts and guests.  Of 
course, with an amd64 host there can be more RAM to share between host 
and VMs.