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Re: [Xen-users] AMD and Hardware Virtualization

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] AMD and Hardware Virtualization
From: "J. Roeleveld" <joost@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 09:54:50 +0200
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On Thursday 01 July 2010 02:47:08 Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 6:31 AM, Net Warrior <netwarrior863@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi There guys
> >
> > While trying to create a Windows DomU I've get this error
> >
> > Error: HVM guest support is unavailable: is VT/AMD-V supported by your
> > CPU and enabled in your BIOS?
> >
> > But my CPU says it supports hardware virtualization, what's wrong?, or
> > does xen search for a particular flag ( svm )
> 
> Did you do what the error message suggested, and check the BIOS? Some
> vendor turn it off by default but provides a setting to turn it on,
> others (like Sony) simply don't allow users to use that feature.
> 

You might also need to upgrade your BIOS.
I had to upgrade mine (bought 6 months ago) to get the support working.

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Joost Roeleveld

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