On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Guido van Rooij <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 03:10:22PM +0200, Bernhard Fröhlich wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Guido van Rooij <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I am trying to install Windows 8 in Virtualbox on a 32-bit FBSD host. >> > (FreebSD 8.3 and VB 4.1.18). >> > >> > Windows refuses to install and this is due to NX not being present (it >> > is enabled in the virtual machine settings). NX is also enabled in my >> > bios as can be seen in the boot log of the FreeBSD host: >> > CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P9700 @ 2.80GHz (2793.02-MHz >> > 686-class CPU) >> > Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x1067a Family = 6 Model = 17 Stepping >> > = 10 >> > >> > Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE> >> > >> > Features2=0x408e3fd<SSE3,DTES64,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,SMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,SSE4.1,XSAVE> >> > AMD Features=0x20100000<NX,LM> >> > AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF> >> > TSC: P-state invariant >> > >> > When I create a new virtual machine with the xact same settings as the W8 >> > host, >> > and boot a FreeSBD installation CD, I see that none of the AMD features are >> > exposed to the guest os: >> > CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P9700 @ 2.80GHz (2883.13-MHz >> > 686-class CPU) >> > Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x1067a Family = 6 Model = 17 Stepping >> > = 10 >> > >> > Features=0x783fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2> >> > Features2=0x209<SSE3,MON,SSSE3> >> > TSC: P-state invariant >> > >> > Is this just not supported, or is there a secret setting? >> >> There are knobs in the processor tab in the GUI for that. >> > > Enable PAE/NX is set. > Vt-x/AMD-V is set > Nesting paging is set. > > So the knowbs are set correctly, yet no NX.
Have a look at your VBox.log and check what it says. -- Bernhard Froehlich http://www.bluelife.at/ _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-emulation To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
