From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MsmJT-0000dG-BZ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:40:55 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 34ECAE06F7; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:40:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca (ironport2-out.teksavvy.com [206.248.154.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 299ABE06F7 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:40:54 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AsYEAK83wkpFxKG2/2dsb2JhbACBUNYmgjOBawWHfg X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.44,475,1249272000"; d="scan'208";a="46822094" Received: from 69-196-161-182.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO waltdnes.org) ([69.196.161.182]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with SMTP; 29 Sep 2009 19:40:52 -0400 Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:40:52 -0400 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:40:52 -0400 To: Gentoo Users List Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is my machine too old for virtualbox? Message-ID: <20090929234052.GB5207@waltdnes.org> References: <20090927132803.GA5562@waltdnes.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090927132803.GA5562@waltdnes.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Archives-Salt: 9fe04060-9577-4d17-8d41-e3c799dba0f9 X-Archives-Hash: d27c8886b6f3ccdc7d83f836a8c8e4fe OK, I got the VirtualBox software going, but I really wanted to get OS/2 going. When I launched the VM, I got the warning... > VT-x/AMD-V hardware acceleration has been enabled, but is not > operational. Certain guests (e.g. OS/2 and QNX) require this feature. > Please ensure that you have enabled VT-x/AMD-V properly in the BIOS > of your host computer. I ignored it and went into the OS/2 install. You will be glad to know that Reiserfs managed to recover nicely, without any data loss, after I totally locked up my machine . When I say totally locked up, not even the Magic SysReq Key got any response. There doesn't seem to be anything in my Dell's BIOS setup about VT-x. Is there any software that can probe the BIOS and enable VT-x, assuming it exists? If not, I'm out of luck for OS/2 on this machine. -- Walter Dnes