From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 21 03:37:13 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 504D31065693 for ; Fri, 21 Aug 2009 03:37:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mak@kolybabi.com) Received: from mail.nepharia.org (mail.nepharia.org [209.44.104.71]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E678B8FC6F for ; Fri, 21 Aug 2009 03:37:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from brisbane.nepharia.org (wnpgmb0808w-ad04-94-98.dynamic.mts.net [74.216.94.98]) by mail.nepharia.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 603073F0883; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:21:37 -0500 (CDT) Received: by brisbane.nepharia.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1000 (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) mak@kolybabi.com; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:21:37 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:21:35 -0500 From: Mak Kolybabi To: John Francis Lee Message-ID: <20090821032135.GA11414@brisbane.nepharia.org> References: <4A8DD86D.5020208@robinlea.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4A8DD86D.5020208@robinlea.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org 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 03:37:13 -0000 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) () ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org | Against proprietary extensions