IIRC you have to enable hardware virtualization in the BIOS. If your CPU doesn’t do that I think you’re out of luck.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_virtualization#Hardware_support From: Damien Solodow [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 1:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Hardware for 64 bit guest OS in Vmware VMware has a cpu check util on their site. However, there are certain BIOS setting requirements as well which might be your current problem. They have a support doc on running 64 bit guests that says what is required. -------------------------- Sent using BlackBerry ________________________________ From: Philip Brothwell <[email protected]> To: NT System Admin Issues <[email protected]> Sent: Wed Dec 30 13:26:14 2009 Subject: Hardware for 64 bit guest OS in Vmware Hi, Anyone know of a easy way to tell if a computer will be able to run a 64 bit guest in Vmware? I have two 64 bit machines in my home lab, one running ESXi and one running Vmware Server. Neither will run a 64 guest so I'm looking to upgrade to do some testing with 2008 R2. Any ideas? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
