"CPU doesn't support long mode" error message

[Bernhard Froehlich]

On Tue, 4 Oct 2011 03:12:12 -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote:
> I've been hunting for hours and can't find a solution.
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> I have a Dell Latitude E6500 notebook.
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> http://www.dell.com/us/dfb/p/latitude-e6500/pd
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> It has an Intel Core 2 Duo CPU P8600 CPU @ 2.4Ghz. with 4 GB RAM
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> I have enabled all the VT stuff in the BIOS (and even disabled the "Trusted
> Execution" checkbox as per this link but have tried with it on too)
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> http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-8978
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> Running their "vt.iso" test, I see this:
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> CPU <0>: VT is enabled on this core.
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> CPU <1>: VT is enabled on this core.
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> I run a Host Windows7 32-bit OS
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> I'm trying to run a Guest VM of FreeBSD 8.2  amd64 64-bit - 
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> I run this VM on my desktop at work no problem, but that's running Win7
> 64-bit Host, but I was under the impression I could run a 64-bit guest on a
> 32-bit host as of the recent versions of VirtualBox.
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> I've tried various combinations of the guest settings for:
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> .         Enable IO APIC
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> .         Enable PAE/NX
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> .         Enable VT-x/AMD-V
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> .         Enable Nested Paging
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> My VBox.log says:
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> 00:00:00.683 [/HWVirtExt/] (level 1)
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> 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

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Bernhard Fröhlich
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