Re: Virtualbox 64 bit guest option is missing
Am Sonntag, 26. August 2012 schrieb Camaleón:
> On Sun, 26 Aug 2012 18:47:34 +0200, Sven Hartge wrote:
> > Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Sun, 26 Aug 2012 18:26:19 +0200, Sven Hartge wrote:
> >>> Hmm. Could you post the output of
> >>>
> >>> grep flags /proc/cpuinfo
> >>>
> >>> so that we can see which capabilities the kernel thinks are
> >>> available on you CPU,
> >>
> >> That will be of little help because CPU will expose the VT-x
> >> capabilities despite the BIOS have them turned off.
> >
> > Oh?
> >
> > I must admit, I never owned a board/CPU combination, where the CPU
> > had virtualization features but the board lacked support for them.
> > So I assumed the capabilities list would reflect this.
>
> I experienced such situation: a BIOS revision that did not expose any
> VT- x options while the CPU supported them. A BIOS update solved it
> and a new menu for VT-x was added to the updated BIOS.
>
> But regardless this I think that "cpuinfo" is about CPU and not BIOS
> capabilities; from here you can't really know what to expect.
May dmidecode be able to step in there?
It shows the DMI / SMBIOS tables.
Ciao,
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