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Re: [Xen-users] Hardware for HVM

To: Christoph <princess@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Hardware for HVM
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Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 11:59:51 +0100
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Hello Christoph,

your CPU (AMD X2) has Virtualization-Support built-in. But you can also check with "grep svm /proc/cpuinfo". The problem is most of the time the lack of support for virtualization in the bios. I had the problem myself with a Gigabyte M61P-S3 rev1 motherboard. I hat to modify (unhide the allready built-in virtualization feature) the bios binary file myself, as gigabytes technical support, wasn't willing to support virtualization. Maybe this works for your bios too, but it also could break your motherboard...

greetz Holger

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?

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)

Xen 3.1 is running in ubuntu 7.10.

Best regards, Christoph

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