Re: [Xen-users] DELL PowerEdge 2850 - no CPU vme support

[Ivan Porro <pivan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Have a look to this article I've spotted time ago.. maybe you can go
back to people who wrote the article (ok, I know they used RedHat, but...)

Hope this help

ivan

http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q06-20050322-Schmidt-OE.pdf


Martin Polehla wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm trying to get working xen on dell poweredge 2850 with two Intel(R)
> Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz using gentoo amd64 distribution settings.
>
> When boot with gentoo sources 2.6.16-genoo-r13 or gentoo kernel sources
> 2.6.17, cat /proc/cpuinfo show me:
>
> flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
> mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall
> nx lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl cid cx16 xtpr
>
> But with xen kernel (I've tried install xen according to
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Xen_and_Gentoo) it didn't show vme support.
> I copied .config from my gentoo sources (where vme works) to xen sources
> and configure xen support in kernel. But it did't help. I cannot see any
> VM messages in xm dmesg and so.
>
> After it I read instructions on xen web site and I used xen tgz file
> from official download, but with same result.
>
> Always when I tried create WinXP host it return an error. I found on
> this list that error means vme is not supported by cpu. :-( But I cannot
> get vme working with xen kernels.
>
> Please, can anyone help me make it working properly ?
>
> Thanks a lot for support
> Martin Polehla
>
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