Installation of FC6/x86_64 in vmware-server 1.0.1

[Benjamin Franz]

On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Joachim Backes wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> did somebody try to install FC6/x86_64 as guest OS in a Fc6/x86_64 host?
> Vmware says this is possible, but I have no success: trying all types of 64bit
> Linux's as guest are rejected by vmware-server:
> 
> 	64-bit guest operating systems are not supported by this host and will
> not run
> 
> What to do?
> 

It sounds like your CPU doesn't have the virtualization extensions (not 
all 64 bit processors do - only specific CPU models). Without them, 64-bit 
guests simply won't work. If you want to run 64-bit guests, you will need 
to get a CPU with the virtualization extensions.

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Benjamin Franz

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