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Date:      Thu, 22 Dec 2011 11:04:34 -0600
From:      Jim King <jim@jimking.net>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 9 RC3 and VirtualBox
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On 12/22/2011 9:56 AM, Joshua Boyd wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 11:56 PM, Adam Vande More<amvandemore@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> VT-x(or the AMD equiv) is a CPU feature and is necessary to run 64-bit
>> guests.  VT-d(or the AMD equiv)/IOMMU is the what is done in the chipset
>> however it isn't necessary to run 64-bit guests.  Both of these features
>> are only found on CPU's supporting long mode.
>>
> Exactly. The E7300 lacks the VT-x bits.
>
>
Actually there are three different part numbers for the E7300.  Two of 
them have VT-x, one does not.




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