VmWare Fusion 'Not 64 bit CPU'

[tom.humphrey]

Hi, everything is running fine, but am having problems with VMWare fusion telling me that my cpu is not a 64 bit cpu (I have an i7-3770k)

Has anyone come across this/found a fix? Not sure what is causing this. Everything else is working fine, and my computer is recognising the CPU correctly (I think at least)

 

[ModBot Jr]

Topic moved to General Tuning.

 

[just_me]

Have you enabled Virtualization in the BIOS? I had an issue installing 64 bit Win 7 in Parallels 8, but enabling the virtualization at the BIOS level solved my issue.

 

[khe91]

3770K don't support VT-d. So not the best choice for virtualization.
You can try to set "Preferred virtualization engine" to "Binary translation" in the preferences of the VM.
3770 works fine with Fusion 5.0.

 

[Xipper]

What version of Fusion are you running and what is your OSX version?

I use it regularly on my i7-3370K, do you have all of the virtualization extensions enabled in the BIOS?

While the 3770K doesn't support VT-d, that is a non-issue as Fusion doesn't support VT-d. Fusion only needs the other virtualization extensions, VT-d is for pass through of PCI devices...which isn't supported on hosted platforms like Fusion, that is only supported on ESX.