> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bernhard Fröhlich [mailto:de...@bluelife.at]
> Sent: Friday, October 07, 2011 11:44 PM
> To: Hub- FreeBSD
> Cc: Daevid Vincent; freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: "CPU doesn't support long mode" error message
> 
> On Sa.,   8. Okt. 2011 01:51:27 CEST, Hub- FreeBSD <free...@hub.org> wrote:
> 
> >
> > On 2011-10-04, at 7:28 AM, Bernhard Froehlich wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 4 Oct 2011 03:12:12 -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I've tried various combinations of the guest settings for:
> > > >
> > > > .                 Enable IO APIC
> > > >
> > > > .                 Enable PAE/NX
> > > >
> > > > .                 Enable VT-x/AMD-V
> > > >
> > > > .                 Enable Nested Paging
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > My VBox.log says:
> > > >
> > > > 00:00:00.683 [/HWVirtExt/] (level 1)
> > > >
> > > > 00:00:00.683     64bitEnabled             <integer> =
> 0x0000000000000000 (0)
> > >
> > >
> > > You need to create a 64bit capable VM which you haven't.
> > >
> > > http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch03.html#intro-64bitguests
> >
> > Being one of those that is going through this headache right now (have
> > something to check in BIOS, but its a remote server, so haven't been
> > able to yet), the above pointer / url is very much   useless,
> > unfortunately … I've read it, repeatedly, and it happily refers you to
> > the GUI …
> >
> > The only thing that I found on that URL refers to "you should enable the
> > I/O APIC for virtual machines that you intend to use in 64-bit mode" …
> > which David stated above that he has tried …
> >
> > So … is there something specific at that URL (beyond the I/O APIC that
> > David did try) that he and I (and potentially others) have both missed
> > for this?
> 
> It's also important to use the FreeBSD 64bit preset when creating a new vm.
> Don't know which is the correct switch for that on vboxmanage.
> 
> You can also create such a vm on another box with the GUI and copy it to
> your headless server or use www/phpvirtualbox.

So, I don't want to re-install the entire VM as it's all configured and works 
great and has taken 6 months to get it to this point.

Isn't there some switch or something I can set in a .xml or config file to make 
it think I had used the "FreeBSD_64" setting (heck, I'm not convinced we didn't 
use that actually -- how can I tell??)

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