Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:21:35 -0500 From: Mak Kolybabi <mak@kolybabi.com> To: John Francis Lee <jfl@robinlea.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: about vbox and freebsd Message-ID: <20090821032135.GA11414@brisbane.nepharia.org> In-Reply-To: <4A8DD86D.5020208@robinlea.com> References: <4A8DD86D.5020208@robinlea.com>
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On 2009-08-21 06:12, John Francis Lee wrote: > My problem is that I'm told right at the onset of the install that > > CPU doesn't support long mode Your CPU is 64-bit from what I can see. From a bit of Googling, others have encountered this problem, and it seems to have to do with VM-X. I have no idea what that is, but a thread in which someone has a very similar issue is here: http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=19420 One notable quote is: ...[the CPU] does not have Intel VT (hardware virtualization), so you will not be able to run 64 bit guests in Virtualbox even though you run a 64 bit host. HTH -- Matthew Anthony Kolybabi (Mak) <mak@kolybabi.com> () ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org | Against proprietary extensions
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