Re: [Xen-users] Hardware for HVM

[Sadique Puthen <sputhenp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Christoph wrote:
> I am using a Asus M2A-VM mainboard with Athlon X2 2300 cpu. The
> mainboard features a AMD 690G chipset. I thought this hardware is amd-v
> compatible. While using xen with hvm I get the message:
>
> root@pluto:/etc/xen# xm create /etc/xen/win.cfg -c
> Using config file "/etc/xen/win.cfg".
> Error: HVM guest support is unavailable: is VT/AMD-V supported by your
> CPU and enabled in your BIOS?
>   
What is the output of "cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep svm" ?

> Nothing to configure in the BIOS. No comments at the vendors website.
> Who knows if hvm works with the above hardware?
>
> If this hardware/mainboard is not compatible which one would be? I want
> to use the rest of hardware (cpu, ram, nics)
>   
Some vendors are known to ship cpus with virtualization support in it, 
but they leave it disabled by default in BIOS and wouldn't provide any 
option in BIOS to re-enabled that. If that is the case with your BIOS, 
then get in touch with your vendor and would get resolved by a bios update.
BTW, you can't reuse the cpu.

--Sadique

> Xen 3.1 is running in ubuntu 7.10.
>
> Best regards, Christoph
>
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