Re: [Xen-users] Dell Optiplex 740 / Xen 3.1 / Ubuntu Gutsy woes [fixed]

["Peter Tersløv Forsberg" <thevillain@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Nov 8, 2007 12:34 AM, Mitch <mitchkelly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Do you mind me asking is your AMD supports virtualisation? type: xm dmesg |
> grep VMX

Since the processor is an AMD, he should actually do a xm dmesg | grep
-i svm, which probably would reveal, that he has support for HVM (see
the original post for the processor flags; svm is listed among them.)

regards
Peter

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew Elwell" <andrew.elwell@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 1:19 AM
> Subject: [Xen-users] Dell Optiplex 740 / Xen 3.1 / Ubuntu Gutsy woes [fixed]
>
>
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > Posting this incase it helps others:
> >
> > I've been battling for *days* to get xen installed on Ubuntu gutsy
> > (amd64) on a nice new Dell Optiplex 740
> >
> > CPU looked fine:
> >
> > processor       : 1
> > vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
> > model name      : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+
> > flags           : fpu tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr mca cmov pat pse36
> > clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt lm 3dnowext
> > 3dnow pni cx16 lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm cr8_legacy
> >
> >
> > domain-0 seemed to install OK, debootstrap of gutsy *seemed* ok too,
> > just never got as far as a login prompt on console or any sign of
> > network activity
> >
> > I eventually gave up on Xen and tried KVM - which threw an error
> > message at the modprobe kvm_amd
> >
> >    kvm: disabled by bios
> >
> > (there is no BIOS option relating to virtualisation)
> >
> > Updated bios from 1.1.3 to 1.2.2 and lo...  all my xen goodness works[1]
> >
> >
> > Tada!
> >
> >
> > [1] well, sorta. Networking seems a bit Wierd - see separate mail
> >
> >
> > Andrew
> >
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