Gregory Nowak <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 12:24:03PM +1200, David Love wrote: > > Hi Greg > > > > Thanks for your prompt reply. > > > > My computer has an AMD FX(tm)-4100 Quad-Core Processor (family, model, > > stepping 21.1.2 (AMD Opteron/Athlon64/FX which should satisfy the x64 > > requirement. However, I cannot find anywhere in the BIOS to determine > > whether hardware virtualisation is enabled/disabled. > > > > Any hints appreciated :-) > > > > Regards > > > > David > > According to: > > http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Bulldozer/AMD-FX-Series%20FX-4100.html > > your processor does indeed support hardware virtualisation, assuming > that the above url describes your processor. As far as where to look for > hardware virtualisation in BIOS, I'm not sure. I've read that may be > disabled by default in some cases, but never had to go and find out how > to enable it myself. Hopefully someone else will be able to help you > more. Ultimately, looking at the output of /proc/cpuinfo will tell you > whether hardware virtualisation is enabled. I can't remember off the top > of my head what flag you want to look for with AMD. I think it shows up > as VTX, but I do stand to be corrected on that.
Thanks again, Greg. Your response spiurred me to have a closer look at the BIOS options and, lo and behold, I found an option entitled "Secure Virtual Machine" in the Advanced - CPU Configuration settings which was disabled. Taking a chance, 'cos I didn't really know what I was dfoing. I Enabled it and now have the ability to load x64 systems to VirtualBox. I am a very happy geriatric :-) David -- David Love A riendly" program doesn't have a 600 page manual! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
