Is there any way to run 64bit Virtual Machine on 64bit processor without hardware virtualization (amd-v, vt-x)?

Question

We have a 64bit virtual machine (CentOS) that we'd like to run on 64bit host-machine (may be running under any OS), but that host-machine doesn't support hardware virtualization, which, you know, should be for running 64bit virtual machines in it.

I tried VirtualBox and VMware Player, but they both have this issue with non-hardware-virtualization processor. I thought maybe another virtualization system may help, like OpenVZ or XEN or KVM? What do you think?

Thanks in advance!

possible duplicate of [Running x86-64 ASM on a x86-32 processor](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21266044/running-x86-64-asm-on-a-x86-32-processor) — phuclv, Mar 24 '15 at 16:39

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered May 29 '12 at 08:35

2

Qemu http://www.qemu.org/ can virtualise architectures without hardware support (even ARM, MIPS, etc). However, it will probably be a lot slower than using qemu-kvm with virtualisation hardware.

answered May 29 '12 at 08:35

xioxox

2,526
1
22
22

"Slow" is not such a big problem in our case :) Will try Qemu. Thank you! – Pavel Geveiler May 29 '12 at 08:42

Is there any way to run 64bit Virtual Machine on 64bit processor without hardware virtualization (amd-v, vt-x)?

1 Answers1