From owner-freebsd-virtualization@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 19 03:48:50 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0322106566C for ; Sat, 19 Dec 2009 03:48:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Received: from ozzie.tundraware.com (ozzie.tundraware.com [75.145.138.73]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 806788FC12 for ; Sat, 19 Dec 2009 03:48:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (viper.tundraware.com [192.168.0.2]) (authenticated bits=0) by ozzie.tundraware.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id nBJ3mjHK015830 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-DSS-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:48:45 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Message-ID: <4B2C4D1C.8000707@tundraware.com> Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:48:44 -0600 From: Tim Daneliuk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091204 Thunderbird/3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org References: <4B2BB633.8080302@tundraware.com> <71884493a925c9959242935b6db83e80.squirrel@pop2.pknet.net> In-Reply-To: <71884493a925c9959242935b6db83e80.squirrel@pop2.pknet.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.3 (ozzie.tundraware.com [75.145.138.73]); Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:48:45 -0600 (CST) X-TundraWare-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-TundraWare-MailScanner-ID: nBJ3mjHK015830 X-TundraWare-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-TundraWare-MailScanner-From: tundra@tundraware.com X-Spam-Status: No Subject: Re: FBSD 8.0 And VirtualBox 3.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussion of various virtualization techniques FreeBSD supports." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 03:48:50 -0000 On 12/18/2009 8:16 PM, Peter wrote: >> I have a machine running Win/XP Pro SP3 hosting VirtualBox 3.1. >> >> The hardware happily boots the Ubuntu amd64 CDROM natively and FreeBSD 8.0 >> also boots fine - well ... up to the point where it has to ID the hard >> drive, but that's another story. >> >> IOW, the hardware is 64-bit capable (It is an Intel mobo w/a Pentium-D >> 940 w/EMT64 option). >> >> HOWEVER, when I run VirtualBox and try to install the 64 bit version >> of FreeBSD in a VM, it get a "CPU doesn't support long mode" error >> during the FreeBSD virtual booting process. FreeBSD 8.0 i386 works >> fine. >> >> 'Anyone run across this before and/or have a fix? >> >> TIA, > > > Do you have VT-x/AMD-v enabled? [in the BIOS and VBox for this VM] > > > > ]Peter[ > > Yup, but I wonder ... I'm running XP as the host which is 32-bit even though the hardware is 64-bit capabale. Could this be limiting what VirtualBox can deliver? -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Daneliuk tundra@tundraware.com PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/