Enable VT-x in SN 10.6.4, Chameleon RC3

[Wolfer]

Hi there,

 

I have a T7300 in a Inspiron 1525 with 10.6.4 installed and running perfectly. I have VMWare hosting a x86 Win 7 VM. Things ran great in 10.6.3, however, after upgrading to 10.6.4, I am seeing hard system freezes where the only solution is to power down -- so, I'm loosing data, being hard on the OS/drive, etc. But, this is another issue. . .

 

MY MAIN QUESTION:

 

VT-x is supported by the machine/BIOS and is enabled. Once booting into SL, and trying to use VT-x on the virtual machine, it states that it's not there or supported and drops into software emulation. Strange as on the Win7 VM ITSELF, if I run "Securable" from grc.com, it tells me that VT-x is on and enabled!?

 

So, I can only make out that SL's EFI implementation is not seeing or taking advantage of VT-x. I know that real Macs needed an EFI firmware update on many of them to get this enabled. But, I have it enabled, so the question leads to whether there will ever be a Chameleon/EFI implementation that supports setting this "bit" on within Snow Leopard?

 

Does anyone have any pointers or tips to advise on how to enable this in Snow Leopard -- or check to see that the OS see that it's enabled -- so that VMWare Fusion 7 can take advantage of it? Is there any EFI implementation (new pre6 or pre7?) that might support it once enabled in BIOS, so that it works up at the OS level? Or is SN x64 required to take advantage of it?

 

Any info would help.

 

Much appreciated!

 

-- Wolfer

[Wolfer]

Any word on this from anyone?

 

Does ANYONE have Parallels running their Hack? I think it might have something to do with the SMBIOS model and/or ROM version, however, I'm not sure. Something has to allow the OS X host OS to see and support the VT-x technology offered by the chip?

 

So, the simple starting question is:

 

Does anyone have Parallels Desktop 5 running on their Hackintosh? And, if so, what did you need to do to get Snow Leopard to see and use it. It's enabled in BIOS, not locked, etc.

 

Thanks much!

 

 

Hi there,

 

I have a T7300 in a Inspiron 1525 with 10.6.4 installed and running perfectly. I have VMWare hosting a x86 Win 7 VM. Things ran great in 10.6.3, however, after upgrading to 10.6.4, I am seeing hard system freezes where the only solution is to power down -- so, I'm loosing data, being hard on the OS/drive, etc. But, this is another issue. . .

 

MY MAIN QUESTION:

 

VT-x is supported by the machine/BIOS and is enabled. Once booting into SL, and trying to use VT-x on the virtual machine, it states that it's not there or supported and drops into software emulation. Strange as on the Win7 VM ITSELF, if I run "Securable" from grc.com, it tells me that VT-x is on and enabled!?

 

So, I can only make out that SL's EFI implementation is not seeing or taking advantage of VT-x. I know that real Macs needed an EFI firmware update on many of them to get this enabled. But, I have it enabled, so the question leads to whether there will ever be a Chameleon/EFI implementation that supports setting this "bit" on within Snow Leopard?

 

Does anyone have any pointers or tips to advise on how to enable this in Snow Leopard -- or check to see that the OS see that it's enabled -- so that VMWare Fusion 7 can take advantage of it? Is there any EFI implementation (new pre6 or pre7?) that might support it once enabled in BIOS, so that it works up at the OS level? Or is SN x64 required to take advantage of it?

 

Any info would help.

 

Much appreciated!

 

-- Wolfer

[Wolfer]

Any word on this from anyone?

 

Does ANYONE have Parallels running their Hack? I think it might have something to do with the SMBIOS model and/or ROM version, however, I'm not sure. Something has to allow the OS X host OS to see and support the VT-x technology offered by the chip?

 

So, the simple starting question is:

 

Does anyone have Parallels Desktop 5 running on their Hackintosh? And, if so, what did you need to do to get Snow Leopard to see and use it. It's enabled in BIOS, not locked, etc.

 

Thanks much!

 

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SOLVED:

 

 

Went into BIOS on the Dell 1525, disabled Virtualization, and hard powered down. Powered up and enabled, saved and hard powered down. When booting into OS X again, it appears that Parallels 5 can see VT-x unlocked and enabled. So, off to the races. Converted my VMware Fusion 3 Windows 7 VM into a Parallels 5 VM and everthing went off without a hitch.

 

Also, the greatest part, no more hard system freezing -- so far -- with the short time I've had to play with it. Seemed anything I access a Samba share when VMware ware was up, the machine would freeze; so far in testing this in Parallels, no issue. And, Parallels is just so "pretty!" <g> Let's hope it functions as good as it looks.

 

-- Wolfer