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Date:      Mon, 16 Apr 2012 23:29:10 -0500
From:      Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>
To:        Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@crodrigues.org>
Cc:        freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: VirtualBox problem booting FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.iso
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On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 10:30 PM, Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@crodrigues.org>wrote:

> After exchanging a few e-mails with Bernard, I think I understand the
> problem.
> According to the VirtualBox manual:
>
> http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch03.html#intro-64bitguests
>
> The CPU needs to support hardware-assisted virtualization in order for
> VirtualBox to support 64-bit guests.
> Without the CPU support, VirtualBox cannot do it.  I double checked
> this with CoreInfo.exe from Windows Sysinternals utilities,
> and also from the Intel data sheet for my CPU:
>
> http://ark.intel.com/products/30787
> (VT-x option not supported)
>
>
> I will use QEMU under Windows until I can get a better machine. :)
>

I believe a Windows 7 product key will activate either 32 or 64 install, so
unless you have a specific reason to install 64 bit then you are likely
better using 32 anyway.  32 bit OS's and apps use less memory than their
corresponding 64 bit counterparts.



-- 
Adam Vande More



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