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On Sa.,   8. Okt. 2011 01:51:27 CEST, Hub- FreeBSD <freebsd@hub.org> wrote:

> 
> On 2011-10-04, at 7:28 AM, Bernhard Froehlich wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 4 Oct 2011 03:12:12 -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote:
> > > 
> > > I've tried various combinations of the guest settings for:
> > > 
> > > .                 Enable IO APIC
> > > 
> > > .                 Enable PAE/NX
> > > 
> > > .                 Enable VT-x/AMD-V
> > > 
> > > .                 Enable Nested Paging
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > My VBox.log says:
> > > 
> > > 00:00:00.683 [/HWVirtExt/] (level 1)
> > > 
> > > 00:00:00.683     64bitEnabled             <integer> = 0x0000000000000000 (0)
> > 
> > 
> > You need to create a 64bit capable VM which you haven't.
> > 
> > http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch03.html#intro-64bitguests
> 
> Being one of those that is going through this headache right now (have
> something to check in BIOS, but its a remote server, so haven't been
> able to yet), the above pointer / url is very much   useless,
> unfortunately … I've read it, repeatedly, and it happily refers you to
> the GUI …
> 
> The only thing that I found on that URL refers to "you should enable the
> I/O APIC for virtual machines that you intend to use in 64-bit mode" …
> which David stated above that he has tried …
> 
> So … is there something specific at that URL (beyond the I/O APIC that
> David did try) that he and I (and potentially others) have both missed
> for this?

It's also important to use the FreeBSD 64bit preset when creating a new vm. Don't know which is the correct switch for that on vboxmanage.

You can also create such a vm on another box with the GUI and copy it to your headless server or use www/phpvirtualbox.