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Re: [Xen-users] AM2 motherboards with HVM support

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] AM2 motherboards with HVM support
From: Tony Hoyle <tmh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:25:35 +0100
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Kevin DeGraaf wrote:
I have a Gigabyte GA-M61SME-S2 motherboard with an Athlon 64 X2 4600+
(Windsor) CPU.

The "svm" flag is present in /proc/cpuinfo, but "xm dmesg" contains:

  (XEN) AMD SVM Extension is disabled in BIOS.

I have carefully gone through the BIOS setup options, and I don't see
anything relating to virtualization, HVM, SVM, AMD-V, etc.

See the thread "Xen 3.0.4.1 AMD-V HVM" from a month or so ago. That was with a GA-M61P-S3. It seems to be a 'feature' of these gigabyte boards that they disable SVM and don't let you switch it on again.

The solution for that one was to downgrade to a version of the BIOS that didn't know how to switch SVM off. That might work for you.

Otherwise, avoid gigabyte boards for xen use.

Tony

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