I really don't think this is a openSUSE problem, nor a virtualbox-problem but encouraged by the initial thread in this forum I thought I should try, and hope no one minds;)! The problem is puzzling me because I can run VMWare Workstation in an older openSUSE on a nearly twin machine?
I'm sorry that I perhaps cannot supply all information that might be needed for solving this problem!
Before I start this thread I really have digged all saved spec's of my hardware and searched the internet for more.
With that reservation in mind, here's what I've got:
openSUSE_x86-64 kernel: 3.4.11-2.16-desktop
Processor: AMD Athlon 64 3000+ 1,8 GHz 512 kB Box Socket 939 (90nm)
MoBo: ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe
[nearly a twin of another machine with same processor but MoBo A8N-SLI Premium]
From hwinfo CPU:
77: None 00.0: 10103 CPU
[Created at cpu.374]
Unique ID: rdCR.j8NaKXDZtZ6
Hardware Class: cpu
Arch: X86-64
Vendor: "AuthenticAMD"
Model: 15.31.0 "AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+"
Features: fpu,vme,de,pse,tsc,msr,pae,mce,cx8,apic,sep,mtrr,pge,mca,cmov,pat,pse36,clflush,mmx,fxsr,sse,sse2,syscall,nx,mmxext,fxsr_opt,lm,3dnowext,3dnow,up,rep_good,nopl,extd_apicid,lahf_lm
Clock: 1000 MHz
BogoMips: 2009.23
Cache: 512 kb
Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
BIOS: American Megatrends version: 1405, date: 01/08/2007
No available settings for AMD-V or SVM.
Exactly the same goes for the somewhat older BIOS on A8N-SLI Premium on the "twin".
VMware-guest64check reports for both machines: "This host is capable of running a 64-bit guest operating system under this
VMware product.."
On the A8N-SLI Premium machine I have VMWare Workstation 6.01_x86-64 installed in an older openSUSE_x86-64.
It has served me well for some years now and can create 32- or 64-bit VM-guest without any problem!
Now back to my openSUSE-12.2 on A8N-SLI (deluxe): I tried to install virtualbox using Yast2 and ordinary repo's.
Virtualbox 4.1.2 installed that way couldn't create anything but 32-bit VM-guests.
Suggestions from a friend encouraged me to "update" virtualbox and use the opensuse version from Sun/Oracle's site.
Uninstalled the 4.1.2-version and all related software, downloaded Virtualbox-4.2.6 64-bit and the related Extensionpack and installed them.
Now, tried to build a Virtual Ubuntu12.10_x86-64-guest and install it from DVD ended up in:
"This kernel requires an x86-64 CPU, but only detected an i686 CPU.
Unable to boot -please use kernel appropriate for your CPU."
that is, exactly the same as with the 4.1.2-version from openSUSE repo's.
I really have searched
https://forums.virtualbox.org/ and have found some who have met the same problem (and it's here I see I should need a lot more hardware info than I've got).
-Though I tried the suggestions to Enable IO APIC and PAE/NX without success.
Has anyone got a suggestion I would really be grateful!
I'll try to provide all additional information that anyone who can help might ask for.
Best regards
Lars
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