Description of problem: Installation of Mageia alpha-1 in a virtualbox on a 64-bits laptop fails with the message "Wrong architecture This is a 32-bit computer. You cnnot use or install 64-bit software on it. [Reboot]" This kernel requires an x86-64 CPU, but only detected an i686 CPU, The same installation succeeded on another 64 bits PC. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): - HP compaq nc9420 - Mandriva Linux release 2010.2 (Official) for x86_64 (up to date) - VirtualBox-4.0-4.0.2_69518_mdv2010.0-1 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. use a Mandriva 2010.2 on HP compaq nc9420 laptop 2. start Virtualbox 3. use the Mageia alpha-1 iso as cdrom 4. start the virtual machine. More info: /proc/cpuinfo: processor : 0 1 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 15 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T5500 @ 1.66GHz stepping : 6 cpu MHz : 1667.000 1000.000 cache size : 2048 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 0 1 cpu cores : 2 apicid : 0 1 initial apicid : 0 1 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 pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm lahf_lm bogomips : 3324.44 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: Successfull PC has an AMD processor, up-to-date mandriva 2010.2 and VirtualBox-4.0-4.0.2_69518_mdv2010.0-1. vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 15 model : 107 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4000+ stepping : 1 Reproducible: Steps to Reproduce:
It seems that you may have created a 32bit VM. The Mageia installer is looking at the virtual CPU in the VM, not at the host's CPU. You need to select "Mandriva (64bit)" in the wizard when you create the VM.
I can't find any 32/64 choice in VirtualBox (4), just windows/linux/... and fedora/suse/mandriva/...
You may need to enable hardware virtualisation in your host system's BIOS. Section 10.3 of the vbox manual gives a fuller explanation: http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch10.html#hwvirt As noted there, some 64 bit CPU's do not support hardware virtualisation.
@OP, what the status of this report?
Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
Indeed, Virtualbox-4 cannot virtualize 64bit w/o hw support :-( Which means lower end CPUS and older one cannot virtualize 64bit...
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDCC: (none) => thierry.vignaudResolution: (none) => INVALIDSource RPM: (none) => virtualbox
This was done on a 64bit laptop, with a 64bit Mandriva and a 64bit virtualbox! Fortunately Mageia alpha-2 boots fine, so the bug IS solved.