Quote Originally Posted by Justin View Post
I attempted to run a virtual machine (to get around a windows 7 specific issue) and got an error possibly related to installing 64 bit os's and when I assumed a bios update could be available I come to find out they cannot be flashed while running a 64 bit operating system, nor can they be installed without a floppy disk drive as far as I know. Gah I feel like such a noob w/ all of this.
without a floppy disk drive? it's virtual, therefore the hardware is virtualized. I don't think having one or not really affects anything. i have 64b Win7 installed on vmware fusion (mac) and it runs just fine. i've also used sun virtualbox in the past with other 64b software (mainly linux), so i don't think it has a problem running it.