Gua Chung Lim <ptkris...@gmail.com> wrote:
> * Valery Ushakov (u...@stderr.spb.ru) wrote:
>> Without VT-x enabled VirtualBox fails to run NetBSD by default.  This
>> is a VirtualBox limitation, it cannot correctly handle some low-level
>> kernel code that NetBSD uses.  IIRC, using --recompile-supervisor flag
>> should help in this case.
>
> I'm not quite sure what you mean.
> But on my machine, NetBSD runs behind VirtualBox on macOS host pretty 
> fine with default configuration. I have been running it for years.

Right, because you use VT-x.  Older CPUs and low-end CPUs (atoms)
don't have VT-x.  Even if your CPU supports it, you might also need to
explicitly enable VT-x in BIOS (not a problem for OSX).

-uwe

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