virtualbox and 64bit guests

[Jerry Feldman]

On 09/15/2010 04:42 PM, Christoph Höger wrote:
> Forgot to mention: I have no option for VT-x in the BIOS, but virtualbox
> and kvm both tell me, it would be enabled.
>
> Am Mittwoch, den 15.09.2010, 17:19 +0100 schrieb Athmane Madjoudj:
>   
>> On 09/15/2010 05:16 PM, Christoph Höger wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> does anyone know if and how I could run a 64bit guest with the
>>> virtualbox-OSE package provided by rpmfusion?
>>>
>>> Currently I can only run 32 bit guests, 64bit fails silently.
>>>
>>>       
>> AFAIK, VirtualBox support 64bit guest only if Hardware Virtualization 
>> (AMD-V, Intel VT-x) is activated.
>>
>> http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch03.html#intro-64bitguests
>
If you cannot enable it in the BIOS, then you simply can't enable it,
period. Sometimes it is not very obvious.

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