On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 09:32:28AM -0600, Josh Paetzel wrote:
> Here's another gotchya you'll want to watch out for in laptops. (as if
> there wasn't enough already)
>
> I was running a 32 bit OS on my last laptop (An IBM/Lenevo T60 with a
> core 2 duo 1.66 ghz) which was fully capable of running a 64 bit OS. I
> was unable to virtualize 64 bit operating systems due to not being able
> to enable VT in the BIOS.
>
> You need VT support both in the actual hardware (cpu) as well as in the
> BIOS in order to virtualize a 64 bit OS from a 32 bit host OS.
The BIOS on my T60 supports virtualization just fine. IIRC the fix
went in about two years ago, as I bought it in March 2007 and I had no
problems with virtualization out of the box.
florin
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