Asus P5K and Vanderpool?

[noctrl]

Hi

 

I just got OS X (10.5.2 Kalyway) running on ASUS P5K (plain/vanilla P5K!)

The only thing I had to do was to install the NVinject.kext (0.2.1) for my nvidia 8600GT 500MB PCIe.

 

So beside the missing microphone support (which I substituted with my Webcam) the only issue I have at the moment is the lack of Vanderpool (no vmx flag). As I going to use both Parallels and XEN I really need it to be enabled.

 

Is there any way known to you to enable it w/o a BIOS entry?

There is none in BIOS!

 

BIOS release 1006

 

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo

processor	: 0
		   vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
		   cpu family	: 6
		   model		: 15
		   model name	: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU	 E4600  @ 2.40GHz
		   stepping	: 13
		   cpu MHz		: 1200.000
		   cache size	: 2048 KB
		   physical id	: 0
		   siblings	: 2
		   core id		: 0
		   cpu cores	: 2
		   fpu		: yes
		   fpu_exception	: yes
		   cpuid level	: 10
		   wp		: yes
		   flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
		   bogomips	: 4821.40
		   clflush size	: 64
		   cache_alignment	: 64
		   address sizes	: 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
		   power management:

		   processor	: 1
		   vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
		   cpu family	: 6
		   model		: 15
		   model name	: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU	 E4600  @ 2.40GHz
		   stepping	: 13
		   cpu MHz		: 1200.000
		   cache size	: 2048 KB
		   physical id	: 0
		   siblings	: 2
		   core id		: 1
		   cpu cores	: 2
		   fpu		: yes
		   fpu_exception	: yes
		   cpuid level	: 10
		   wp		: yes
		   flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
		   bogomips	: 4818.20
		   clflush size	: 64
		   cache_alignment	: 64
		   address sizes	: 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
		   power management:

And such resulting entry in kernellog:

18.05.08 13:16:14 kernel [err in vtxGetSupportCallb] : VT-x is not available on CPU #1.	->	vtx.c:151
 18.05.08 13:16:14 kernel [err in vtxGetSupportCallb] : VT-x is not available on CPU #0.			 ->	vtx.c:151
 18.05.08 13:16:17 kernel [err in vtxSwitchOnCallbac] : VT-x is not present or locked.				 ->	vtx.c:449
 18.05.08 13:16:17 kernel [err in vtxSwitchOnCallbac] : VT-x is not present or locked.				 ->	vtx.c:449

 

Any sugestions would be much appreciated.

 

Thx

[Krazubu]

This model of CPU doesn't have VT

[noctrl]

Now you caught me off-guard.

I'm gonna dig for some specs then.

Thx for your fast reply.

 

EDIT:

You're right. Looks like I was too long away from Intel.

Switched to Q6600 G0 Stepping and it rocks m8.

Thx again for pointing it out.