On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 01:18:00PM +0100, Xinform3n wrote: > > OpenBSD-amd64 runs on intels that do have EMT64. Its just intel that > > wanted a name for the 64bit mode without "amd" in the name. > > You are probably speaking about x86_64, not EMT64. > EMT64 isn't compatible with amd64, x86_64 nor a nickname of these > technologies. > > I never tried, but I'm sure that VMware ESXi couldn't be installed on > this CPU because they request a amd64 compatible CPU. > This is an interesting discussion (no irony) but doesn't help. > (After a check on Google, it isn't EMT64 but EM64T, sorry.) > > Obviously I'm not the only one to encounter this kind of problem: > http://marc.info/?t=134312711800001&r=1&w=2
OpenBSD/amd64 does work on EMT64T cpus. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64 for a nice list of synonyms. -Otto
