This is a 32 bit computer, you can't use 64 bit software on it.
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First thing, the output from uname doesn't show anything about your hardware, only about your kernel. It's a subtle difference that you should always keep in scope. Of course, in this case, to run a 64 bits kernel you need 64-able hardware so, accidentally, the erroneous assumption you made there doesn't really matter so much.
Your problem in this case has to do with the fact that you are trying to install a given OS in a virtual machine, so it's the emulated hardware in that machine which matters, and not your physical hardware. I have no idea if your concrete VM can emulate an x86_64 cpu, I will leave that for you to discover.
fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 xsave lahf_lm
Yeah, it's a 64-bit processor as well - that lm in the flags shows it is.
EDIT: Have you got the 64-bit VirtualBox?
ANOTHER EDIT: One for OpenSuse AMD64? http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads
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