My Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU supports intel VT but it's disabled by default in BIOS.
Currently I'm hardly testing libdodo in different environments. As I'm running IA32 kernel I was testing it in x86 environments. Lately I decided to test it in x86_64 with VMWare. I went to BIOS, turned on VT support, rebooted ... and VMWare player told me that my platform supports VT but it's disabled. What the heck? I checked that the option is enabled in BIOS several times but still couldn't run x86_64 guest OS.
Googling didn't help. Running guest OS under qemu x86_64 simulation was the last option. It's extremely slow.
When I almost gave up I reached a very interesting article.
The author is telling that after the VT option was enabled in BIOS, the processor must be plugged off from the electricity circuit.
I turned off my laptop removed power supply and battery, waited for a few seconds, plugged the stuff back, booted and started VMWare with x86_64 guest. BINGO.
Now I'm able to run x86_64 guests on x86 host.
Thursday, December 4, 2008
intel VT: how to enable
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