virtualbox no 64 bit option

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Hi all my virtual box doesn't have the 64 bit option only 32 bit ????? tried the searching online but none of the fixes have fixed my set up ? any ideas win 8.1

 

[LMiller7]

Is the host 32 or 64 bit?
Exactly what are you trying to do?

 

[Gort]

Hi all my virtual box doesn't have the 64 bit option only 32 bit ????? tried the searching online but none of the fixes have fixed my set up ? any ideas win 8.1

Depending on what exactly you're trying to do, you might need to edit a setting in your BIOS to enable hardware virtualisation, in order to run 64-bit guests on the host machine. This is explained in this VirtualBox help page: I have a 64bit host, but can't install 64bit guests.