Re: FreeBSD 9 RC3 and VirtualBox

2011-12-22 Thread Jim King
On 12/22/2011 9:56 AM, Joshua Boyd wrote: On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 11:56 PM, Adam Vande Morewrote: VT-x(or the AMD equiv) is a CPU feature and is necessary to run 64-bit guests. VT-d(or the AMD equiv)/IOMMU is the what is done in the chipset however it isn't necessary to run 64-bit guests. Bot

Re: FreeBSD 9 RC3 and VirtualBox

2011-12-22 Thread Joshua Boyd
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 11:56 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: > VT-x(or the AMD equiv) is a CPU feature and is necessary to run 64-bit > guests. VT-d(or the AMD equiv)/IOMMU is the what is done in the chipset > however it isn't necessary to run 64-bit guests. Both of these features > are only found o

Re: FreeBSD 9 RC3 and VirtualBox

2011-12-21 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Joshua Boyd wrote: > On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Joshua Boyd wrote: > > > Thanks. > > > > Nevermind. This "new" work computer is 64 bit but doesn't have the right > chipset features to support 64bit guests. > > Lame. > > Sorry for the noise. > VT-x(or the A

Re: FreeBSD 9 RC3 and VirtualBox

2011-12-21 Thread perryh
Joshua Boyd wrote: > This "new" work computer is 64 bit but doesn't have the right > chipset features to support 64bit guests. > > Lame. Perhaps that sort of machine should be referred to as 63-bit, since it is a bit short of full 64-bit capability :) [ducks & runs]

Re: FreeBSD 9 RC3 and VirtualBox

2011-12-21 Thread Mike Tancsa
On 12/21/2011 2:22 PM, Joshua Boyd wrote: > I'm unable to install RC3 on VirtualBox, I receive the following error: > > CPU doesn't support long mode >> >> Consoles: internal video/keyboard >> BIOS drive C: is disk0 >> BIOS 639kB/1047552kB available memory >> >> FreeBSD/x86 bootstrap loader, Revis

Re: FreeBSD 9 RC3 and VirtualBox

2011-12-21 Thread Johan Hendriks
Joshua Boyd schreef: On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Joshua Boyd wrote: Thanks. Nevermind. This "new" work computer is 64 bit but doesn't have the right chipset features to support 64bit guests. Lame. Sorry for the noise. Sometimes a new BIOS version get the needed 64bits virtual suppo

FreeBSD 9 RC3 and VirtualBox

2011-12-21 Thread Joshua Boyd
I'm unable to install RC3 on VirtualBox, I receive the following error: CPU doesn't support long mode > > Consoles: internal video/keyboard > BIOS drive C: is disk0 > BIOS 639kB/1047552kB available memory > > FreeBSD/x86 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1 > (r...@farrell.cse.buffalo.edu, Sun Dec 4 07

Re: FreeBSD 9 RC3 and VirtualBox

2011-12-21 Thread Joshua Boyd
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Joshua Boyd wrote: > Thanks. > Nevermind. This "new" work computer is 64 bit but doesn't have the right chipset features to support 64bit guests. Lame. Sorry for the noise. -- Joshua Boyd E-mail: boy...@jbip.net http://www.jbip.net _