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August 30th, 2007 19:00
Powedge 2900 - Enabling VT Via BIOS?
We recently purchased another Poweredge 2900 to run VM Ware. On this particular machine, we need to load Windows 2003 64bit. Before loading VM Ware, we had installed/tested the Win2k3 64 bit OS. Now, VM Ware is throwing an error that the server does not support a 64 bit OS. In doing some research, it seems that this technology is controlled partially through BIOS.
Before I shut down a production server, can anyone tell me if they are running VM Ware 3.x and virtualizing a 64 bit OS on a PowerEdge 2900 using Xeon processors, and if yes, did you need to make any changes to the BIOS settings? Thanks in advance.
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August 30th, 2007 20:00
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August 30th, 2007 21:00
In the bios you need to enable the VT technology to be able to make x64 virtual machines.
Here is some information about the bios options. As the page shows, VT technology is disabled by default. After you enable it, you won't have to reinstall the VMware OS, or even recreate the VM itself (not much there right now as it wouldn't start up anyway). I have run into this in the past with a PE2950.
Message Edited by Dev Mgr on 08-30-2007 05:40 PM