On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 04:48, Tim Daneliuk <tun...@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. 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?
Exactly. For 64bit guests the host has to be 64bit too afaik. _______________________________________________ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-virtualization-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
