Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 12:01:20 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Marius_N=FCnnerich?= <marius@nuenneri.ch> To: Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> Cc: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FBSD 8.0 And VirtualBox 3.1 Message-ID: <b649e5e0912190301s711ce57kf2f6f70aa1945ccc@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4B2C4D1C.8000707@tundraware.com> References: <4B2BB633.8080302@tundraware.com> <71884493a925c9959242935b6db83e80.squirrel@pop2.pknet.net> <4B2C4D1C.8000707@tundraware.com>
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On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 04:48, Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> wrote: > On 12/18/2009 8:16 PM, Peter wrote: >>> I have a machine running Win/XP Pro SP3 hosting VirtualBox 3.1. >>> >>> The hardware happily boots the Ubuntu amd64 CDROM natively and FreeBSD = 8.0 >>> also boots fine - well ... up to the point where it has to ID the hard >>> drive, but that's another story. >>> >>> IOW, the hardware is 64-bit capable (It is an Intel mobo w/a Pentium-D >>> 940 w/EMT64 option). >>> >>> HOWEVER, when I run VirtualBox and try to install the 64 bit version >>> of FreeBSD in a VM, it get a "CPU doesn't support long mode" error >>> during the FreeBSD virtual booting process. =A0FreeBSD 8.0 i386 works >>> fine. >>> >>> 'Anyone run across this before and/or have a fix? >>> >>> TIA, >> >> >> Do you have VT-x/AMD-v enabled? [in the BIOS and VBox for this VM] >> >> >> >> ]Peter[ >> >> > > Yup, but I wonder ... I'm running XP as the host which is 32-bit even tho= ugh > the hardware is 64-bit capabale. =A0Could this be limiting what VirtualBo= x > can deliver? Exactly. For 64bit guests the host has to be 64bit too afaik.
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