virtualbox 4.0

2011-07-21 Thread Minipot Gregg
I wanted to get freeBSD but I didn't wan't to dual boot so I used virtualbox 4.0 and downloaded the ISO of the freeBSD amd64 8.2. It installed fine but when I got to the boot menu and pressed [enter] x2 it said CPU doesnt support longmode and then come's up saying type '?&

Re: virtualbox 4.0

2011-07-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 21/07/2011 09:48, Minipot Gregg wrote: > It installed fine but when I got to the boot menu and pressed [enter] x2 it > said CPU doesnt support longmode This indicates trying to run an amd64 (64bit) kernel on an i386 (32bit) processor. That's a synthetic processor inside VirtualBox, so unlike t

Re: virtualbox 4.0

2011-07-21 Thread Ross Cameron
hone : +27 (0)79 491-9954 On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Minipot Gregg wrote: > I wanted to get freeBSD but I didn't wan't to dual boot so I used > virtualbox > 4.0 and downloaded the ISO of the freeBSD amd64 8.2. > It installed fine but when I got to the boot menu and

Re: virtualbox 4.0

2011-07-21 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 21/07/2011 09:48, Minipot Gregg wrote: It installed fine but when I got to the boot menu and pressed [enter] x2 it said CPU doesnt support longmode This indicates trying to run an amd64 (64bit) kernel on an i386 (32bit) processor. That's a synthe

Re: virtualbox 4.0

2011-07-21 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 01:18:15PM +0200, Ross Cameron wrote: > > You have more than likely configured a 32bit virtual machine and not a 64bit > one. > Make that change to you're VM config and you will more than likely come > right. > > Is you're host operating system also 64bit? It has been

Re: virtualbox 4.0

2011-07-21 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 8:38 AM, Warren Block wrote: > Recent versions of VirtualBox claim to be able to run a 64-bit VM on a > 32-bit host if the host CPU is 64-bit and has hardware virtualization > support: http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?p=33940 > (search for "64-bit guest") > > So

Re: virtualbox 4.0

2011-07-21 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 07:38:23AM -0600, Warren Block wrote: > Recent versions of VirtualBox claim to be able to run a 64-bit VM on a > 32-bit host if the host CPU is 64-bit and has hardware virtualization > support: http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?p=33940 > (search for "64-bit gues

Re: virtualbox 4.0

2011-07-25 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 07:38:23AM -0600, Warren Block wrote: Recent versions of VirtualBox claim to be able to run a 64-bit VM on a 32-bit host if the host CPU is 64-bit and has hardware virtualization support: http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewto