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