Re: Install XP 64-bit on Windows 2003 Server

Ed wrote:
On Nov 6, 4:08 pm, "Edwin vMierlo [MVP]"
<EdwinvMie...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Windows XP 64-bit is for x64 processors, not Itanium.

"Ed" <seah...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

news:1194328616.942232.127190@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Hi, guys,
Here I have a Windows 2003 32-bit server, running stable. The machine
CPU is Itanium Processor.
Now I also need to install Windows XP 64-bit on this machine also.
I want to make the machine into Multi-OS host.
I put the XP Install CD in the CD-Rom, then It tell me to create a
partition, then I did and type next, then error of blue screen
occurred.
It's a question I never met before. Could you give me some hints about
how can I install XP on this host?
Ed

And Itanium is the brand name for 64-bit Intel microprocessors. So why
it isn't suitable for XP 64-bit?


http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/64bit/facts/sysreq.mspx

The IA64 (Itanium) architechture, while it is 64-bit, is not the same as the x64 platform. There are two 64-bit versions of XP, it seems:

Windows XP 64-bit Edition - For Itanium platforms
Windows XP Professional x64 Edition - For x86-64 platforms.

Looking at this Wikipedia article, the Itanium version doesn't sound great to me:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP_64-bit_Edition

No security updates for a start... If I were you I'd consider running Server 2003 IA64 instead, but Microsoft also haven't released at R2 version of that.

It seems to me that support for the Itanium isn't great, but at least there's an IA64 version of Windows Server 2008 RC0 so hopefully the future isn't too bleak for the platform.

--
Chris.
.

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