From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 21 12:53:48 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B3A41065690 for ; Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:53:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dhutty@allgoodbits.org) Received: from smtp.allgoodbits.com (allgoodbits.com [97.107.132.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CBF38FC64 for ; Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:53:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.allgoodbits.org (pool-72-95-226-80.pitbpa.ftas.verizon.net [72.95.226.80]) by smtp.allgoodbits.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 715114E2BB for ; Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:35:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (mail.allgoodbits.org [127.0.0.1]) by mail.allgoodbits.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 260B6BA22D for ; Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:35:24 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at allgoodbits.org Received: from mail.allgoodbits.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.allgoodbits.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id QxMbzHzFR+W4 for ; Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:35:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ODYSSEUS.ECE.CMU.EDU (ODYSSEUS.ECE.CMU.EDU [128.2.136.161]) by mail.allgoodbits.org (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 531BABA20B for ; Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:35:23 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4A8E948B.5080505@allgoodbits.org> Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:35:23 -0400 From: Duncan Hutty User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Macintosh/20090605) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.org References: <4A8DD86D.5020208@robinlea.com> <20090821032135.GA11414@brisbane.nepharia.org> In-Reply-To: <20090821032135.GA11414@brisbane.nepharia.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: about vbox and freebsd X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:53:48 -0000 Mak Kolybabi wrote: > 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. > This CPU does support hardware virtualization as can be seen by the svm flag in the output of cpuinfo. It may be obvious but... Did you install the 64bit version of Ubuntu? uname -m will tell you. -- Duncan Hutty