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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](https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/bionic) 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