[illumos-Developer] Something for later but interesting IMHO

[Mike Riley]

On 08/17/10 04:40, Damian Wojsław wrote:
> Quoting Cyril Plisko <cyril.plisko at mountall.com>:
>
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>
>>>
>>> Yes, I'm using it, but VirtualBox on OpenSolaris asks me to turn on virt
>>> flags support in order to host 64bit guests.
>>
>> In most cases that means that VT is disabled in the BIOS. Have you
>> check that ?
>>
>> I am running 64bit guests (VirtualBox) all the time on my Core2 laptop
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>>         Cyril
>>
>
> It is turned on and clearly recognised and actively used by xen on
> Linux. It's realted to this problem:
> http://trochejen.blogspot.com/2010/01/update-to-build-130.html
> While next builds don't hang on it, they don't utilise the set.
> VirtualBox was 3.2.2 and later.

This question would probably be better answered on the Virtual Box site.  I am assuming you have 
already tried 3.2.8 for this.

I am curious as to the exact model of your CPU and chipset.  Is it possibly one of the newer 
ones where they eliminated the FSB?

Mike