[Xen-users] Success with an inexpensive mother board.

[Jim Lynch <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I wanted to report a successful HVM install on a relatively inexpensive
motherboard.  I purchased an ECS P4M800PRO-M V2.0 board and an Intel
6300 as a combo for something in the $200 range recently.  I was a bit
unhappy to find that there was no bios option to turn the VT option
on.   I use the system tools on a SuSE 10.2 distro to boot a debian
sarge network install CD.   All went well and I now have a minimal
debian 3.1 HVM guest.  So even though the motherboard bios doesn't have
an option to enable/disable the vtx feature, it apparently defaulted to
enable, since my understanding is that the chip default is disabled.  I
was pleasantly surprised.

While this isn't a real speed demon, wrt cpu speed, it's a good platform
to demonstrate and experiment on Xen.

Jim.

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