Unable to power on a 64bit virtual machine

[Rapiscan]

I am getting this error message, when trying to power on a 64-bit VM.

The CPU of the host is incompatible with the CPU feature requirements of virtual machine; problem detected at CPUID level 0x1 register 'ecx'

requirements of virtual machine; problem detected at CPUID level 0x80000001 register 'edx'.

But if I create a 32-bit VM, it will power on without any problem.

Tools used: (see the result at the attached pictures)

VT.ISO

CPUID.ISO

Both of utilities have good results, no bad or failure.

Any reason Why I cannot power on a 64-bit VM?

Hardware configuration:

Dell Laptop XPS L701X

Processor:Q740

Memory: 12GB

Hard disk: 2x 500GB

What should i do?

[weinstein5]

What VMware product are you using? Workstation or VMware Sevrer?

[Rapiscan]

I downloaded the evaluation copy of Workstation 7, vCenter server 4.1 and ESXi 4.1 .

Workstation 7

      vCenter Server 4.1

           ESXi 4.1

              OS 64-bit

[idle-jam]

ESXi on Workstation 7 does not supported nested 64 bit, even if your CPU is ready for it. 32Bit is the only virtual machine you can run without any problem.

[admin]

You need to boot VT.ISO inside your ESX virtual machine if you want to check the capabilities of the virtual CPU.

[Rapiscan]

I created a generic VM linux-32bit, attached the VT.ISO file, and booted from it.

The screen said:

CPU 0: This core does not support VT

So the virtual does not know how to carry over the 64-bit from the laptop hardware.

[a_p_]

Yes, VT - which is necessary to run 64 bit VMs - is not passed through to the virtual machines.

André

[admin]

Rapiscan wrote:

So the virtual does not know how to carry over the 64-bit from the laptop hardware.

The virtual CPU has 64-bit support.  It doesn't have VT support (and therefore can't run 64-bit guests).  Virtualizing VT is challenging.

[idle-jam]

Yes, as per earlier you can do a 64 bit virtual machine over a nested ESX hosts on vmware workstation. as simple as that.