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Re: [Xen-users] Xen 3.0.3 confusion

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Xen 3.0.3 confusion
From: Art Fore <art.fore@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 19:36:29 +0800
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On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 08:32 +0200, Ulrich Windl wrote:
> On 25 Oct 2006 at 1:55, Art Fore wrote:
> 
> [...]
> > The more I look into this, the more confused I get.
> > 
> > >From http://www.xensource.com/files/xen_install_windows.pdf
> > There is a paragraph:
> > Type /usr/sbin/xm info | grep caps at the command prompt. You will see
> > "hvm-3.0-x86_32" if Xen can detect the VT or AMD-V technology. If you do
> > not see this, then your system does not have the appropriate processor
> > technology, or it has been disabled in the BIOS. You must rectify this
> > before proceeding.
> > 
> > When I type the command, I get:
> > linux-p204:~ # /usr/sbin/xm info | grep caps
> > hw_caps                :
> > 178bfbff:ebd3fbff:00000000:00000010:00002001:00000000:0000001f
> > xen_caps               : xen-3.0-x86_64 hvm-3.0-x86_32 hvm-3.0-x86_64
> 
> For a 2.6GHz Dual-Core Opteron I see (SLES10 x86_64, xen-3.0.2_09763-0.8):
> 
> hw_caps                : 
> 178bfbff:e3d3fbff:00000000:00000010:00000001:00000000:00000003
> xen_caps               : xen-3.0-x86_64
> 
> So either there's no HVM support, or it wasn't compiled in... 8-(
> 
> [...]
> 
> Regards,
> Ulrich
> 
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Interesting. One of the replays says it is normal. I ran the XenLiveCD
and also got the same as I got before. When I executed one of the
scripts to add a virtual machine, it then changed like the xen_caps line
you have.

Art


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