FBSD 8.0 And VirtualBox 3.1
Tim Daneliuk
tundra at tundraware.com
Sat Dec 19 03:48:50 UTC 2009
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. FreeBSD 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 though
the hardware is 64-bit capabale. Could this be limiting what VirtualBox
can deliver?
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