VMWare on Windows 7

I own a Lenovo W530 and am trying to use virtual machine inside. I downloaded the Hadoop demo virtual machine from Cloudera and tried to open it with VMware Player on my 64 bit Windows 7 machine. The system has Intel i7 - 3720 QM processor with 24 GB of memory.

I am getting the following error:

"This kernel requires an x86-64 CPU, but only detected an i686 CPU. Unable to boot - please use a kernel appropriate for your CPU"

I searched a bit and found out that it could be because the virtualization is usually disabled in the BIOS. I enabled it and cold booted the system.

I am getting the same error.

Could someone please help?

Thank you

Ravi

 

could you post a screenshot of CPU-Z -> CPU, just wanted to check if EM64T and VT-X is properly recognized
you can also try running Download HAV Detection Tool from Official Microsoft Download Center to confirm that virtualization is fine, otherwise it could just be the settings of the guest VM

 

I have attached the screenshots from both CPU-Z and HAV tool. If this is problem with just the guest settings in the VM, how do I change it? Thank you.

 

everything looks good with cpu-z.

after launching vmplayer
1. left click on the guest vm in your case would be Hadoop demo virtual machine
2. right click and select "virtual machine settings"
3. next screen select "processors"
4. change virtualization to intel vt-x/ept or automatic
5. change the number of processors to 2 and number of cores to 8 as well.

save and run the VM, see if that works.