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Date:      Fri, 30 Sep 2011 20:54:18 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Sean C. Farley" <scf@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Hub- FreeBSD <freebsd@hub.org>
Cc:        freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org
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On Fri, 30 Sep 2011, Hub- FreeBSD wrote:

> 'k, I'm doing everything from the command line, and when I did the 
> createvm, and according to the docs 
> (https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.html#idp12400368), there eis 
> no option to set 64 vs 32bit … even the modifyvm section only seems to 
> have the --ostype option, and in this case, I had set it to 
> FreeBSD_64, based on what is displayed when you do a 'list ostypes', 
> as what should be for a 64bit environment …
>
> So, either something is broken, or I'm missing an argument / setting 
> here :(

The only difference between a 32-bit and 64-bit VM according to the XML 
files generated is whether I/O APIC is enabled.  You could create a VM 
then use modifyvm to enable the I/O APIC:
VBoxManage modifyvm <uuid|name> --ioapic on

> On 2011-09-30, at 7:54 PM, Warren Block wrote:
>> On Fri, 30 Sep 2011, Hub- FreeBSD wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> 'k, I assumed that was what happened when I set "--ostype 
>>> FreeBSD_64" … I take it there is another switch I need to use?
>>
>> What I found with the GUI was that changing an existing VM to 64-bit 
>> did not work, it had to be created as 64-bit in the first place.

Sean
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