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I am mounting a Virtual Box Machine to have a Ubuntu Server, the Host Machine is a Windows Server Standar 32 bits, and when I run the Machine to get the installation, i received this error message: "This Kernel requires an x86-64 CPU, but only detectedvan i686 CPU. Unable to boot - please use a kernel appropriate for your CPU.

However, i can not find a version for this machine.

Thanks.

Erniux Third
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You are trying to install a 64-bit OS onto a 32-bit OS. That will not work unless you have hardware that is capable of running 64-bit (but why would you install a 32-bit system ;) )

  • Version 18.04 does not provide 32-bit installers.
  • Version 16.04 does have a 32-bit installer. You can find them here.

So, as a workaround, you could install 16.04 32-bit and then simply upgrade 16.04 32-bit to 18.04 32-bit.

Fabby
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Rinzwind
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  • And then you could do-release-upgrade on the 16.04 release and upgrade to 18.04. Whether or not 20.04 (the next LTS) will support 32bit or not is a tossup, there's been discussions about not supporting 32-bit in the future, but I'm not sure where that discussion sits currently. – Thomas Ward Aug 27 '18 at 14:40
  • Yes, it is fully possible. 32-bit repositories and builds still exist, so the upgrade process works. The only thing not produced since 18.04 is 32bit installation ISOs. You can confirm this by seeing the enabled architectures and builds for that release over on Launchpad's entry for Bionic Beaver 18.04 for the project, where i386 is still an enabled architecture for builds. – Thomas Ward Aug 27 '18 at 14:42
  • @ThomasWard ha seems possible :) – Rinzwind Aug 27 '18 at 14:42
  • Thank you for your answers, the thing is that i need to install a Ruby on Rails app in this machine, but it is an old version and even do not have ISS to install applications, so as a solution I decided to create a Virtual Machine with Linux to do the way easier. – Erniux Third Aug 27 '18 at 14:54
  • @SoftwareTesting no problem. Important thing to find out: is that software 32 bit? If so... install 32-bit 16.04 and do not upgrade to 18. – Rinzwind Aug 27 '18 at 14:55
  • yes I will not upgrade, maybe in the meantime we could considere buy a new server, until, we are running a very old app and I am preparing the migration of this app. – Erniux Third Aug 27 '18 at 14:59