Re: Oracle's VirtualBox utility
- From: Don Seiler <don@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: norman.dunbar.capgemini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 12:32:26 -0500
You might need to enable virtualization in the machine BIOS. I had to
do this for my Dell Optiplex.
Don.
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Dunbar, Norman (Capgemini)
<norman.dunbar.capgemini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Afternoon all,
>
> Laptop: Dell Vostro, 8GB RAM, 64bit "top of the range" Core 2 Duo CPU.
> OS: OpenSuse 11.2 64 bit.
> Oracle VirtualBox: 3.2.6 64 bit.
>
> Just a quick question. I'm using this "now owned by Oracle" utility on
> my laptop and I was attempting to install a 64 bit copy of Linux Mint 9
> (for experimental purposes - soon to be Oracle Enterprise Linux 64 bit)
> only to be told that the IsoLinux installer required a 64 bit machine to
> install on.
>
> I "know" that the version of VirtualBox I'm using is definitely 64 bit
> (ok, it says so in the file name -
> VirtualBox-3.2-3.2.6_63112_openSUSE111-1.x86_64.rpm) and is running on
> top of OpenSuse 64 bit and the laptop is most definitely 64 bit so I'm a
> tad surprised about the error.
>
> The version of VirtualBox I'm using is *not* the Open Source Edition,
> it's the full version.
>
> I have Googled for this problem and come across a number of quite old
> explanations but these are all (so far) relating to pre version 2.0 of
> VirtualBox which don't support 64 bit guests.
>
> Just wondering if anyone has any experience of this and possibly a fix?
>
>
>
> Cheers,
> Norman.
>
> Norman Dunbar
> Contract Senior Oracle DBA
> Capgemini Database Team (EA)
> Internal : 7 28 2051
> External : 0113 231 2051
>
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