Enthusiast Look: Windows XP 32-Bit versus 64-Bit by Rob Williams on June 8, 2005 in Software Since Windows XP Pro 64-Bit was released, there has been a lot of speculation of whether it would help ...

If you're running Windows XP, chances are it's 32-bit. However, if you're on Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, or Windows Vista, the chance that you're running a 64-bit version goes up considerably.

My question is what are the drawbacks of running the 32-bit version of Windows XP on dual quad-core Xeon processors? Will the OS be able to utilize the 4-cores in both processor?

VirtualBox is flexible enough to handle many types of 32-bit and 64-bit configurations. If you need to run a 32-bit version of XP in a 64-bit host, you can do that without any problems.

I would personally suggest you to use a download manager to download these files to ensure proper downloading of these huge files. Windows 7 Direct Download Links 32-bit Windows 7 Professional x86 ...

Terminal Server and Windows on Windows (WOW) (which allows installing 32-bit versions of Office 2010 on 64-bit operating systems) are also supported.