Tried it with a Centos 6.0 guest also … similar error, but more explicitly telling me I'm not using a 64bit processor …
"This kernel requires an x86-64 CPU, but only detected an i686 CPU" On 2011-09-30, at 11:09 AM, Sales wrote: > > Okay, did find t he following, but it was from '09 ... > > https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=19420 > > I just tried to install 8.2/64bit on my 7-STABLE 64bit server … error comes > up as 'CPU doesn't support long mode' … the above link indicates that this is > because my CPUs don't support some features, but, my system is only a year > old … > > dmesg shows my CPU as: > > CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5420 @ 2.50GHz (2500.10-MHz K8-class > CPU) > Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x1067a Family = 6 Model = 17 Stepping = 10 > > Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE> > > Features2=0x40ce3bd<SSE3,DTES64,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,DCA,SSE4.1,XSAVE> > AMD Features=0x20100800<SYSCALL,NX,LM> > AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF> > TSC: P-state invariant > Cores per package: 4 > > > And according to Intel's site, it does support VT-x: > > http://ark.intel.com/products/33927/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5420-%2812M-Cache-2_50-GHz-1333-MHz-FSB%29 > > So, this is something else altogether … ? > > Thx > > _______________________________________________ freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-emulation To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-emulation-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
