Maybe you disabled this in the BIOS?' If not present: 'Your CPU doesn't support virtualization required for 64-bit guests'.

If present: print: 'You CPU seems to support VT-x, but I can't enable it. It would be VERY useful if VirtualBox would detect that it can't use VT-X (it already does: it grays out the option) and then has a little piece of code that would look through /proc/cpuinfo and search for the flag it needs. Which page of which wiki? Anyway, I found the Intel page for my processor, and I don't have VT-X. So I find this thread where 'the wiki' says which processors have VT-x. So I boot my Linux, and google some more. So I go into the bios, but I can't find it. Now I reboot about two or three days a year, and I keep my desktop the way I like it, with lots of window ready-to-use. Google some more, and I find you can turn this on and off in the bios. try and find the configuration thingy, which turns out not to be named: 'Intel Virutalization technology' in the menu but VT-x.

I search some more, and I have to enable a certain configuration thingy. Next, I try to boot, and it gives me: 'your CPU is not 64-bit capable'. I google for '64 bit guest on 32 bit host' (it's among the suggestions once you start typing 'virtualbox 64') and get lots of: 'Now 64 bit guests supported on 32 bit hosts'. It took me over an hour to figure this out. May I try to suggest an enhancement for VirtualBox here? Model name : Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2300 1.66GHzįlags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx constant_tsc arch_perfmon bts pni monitor est tm2 xtpr pdcm So I should have VT-x, right? Well, think again.Ĭode: Select all Expand view Collapse view processor : 0 Note that it is a T2300, not the E version. Mr-Biscuit, in addition to TerryE, here is the info of my laptop processor.

Virtualbox 64 bit guest on 32bit host