about vbox and freebsd

[Duncan Hutty]

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