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Re: [Xen-users] Hardware for HVM

To: Christoph <princess@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Hardware for HVM
From: Sadique Puthen <sputhenp@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 16:12:57 +0530
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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?

What is the output of "cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep svm" ?

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)

Some vendors are known to ship cpus with virtualization support in it, but they leave it disabled by default in BIOS and wouldn't provide any option in BIOS to re-enabled that. If that is the case with your BIOS, then get in touch with your vendor and would get resolved by a bios update.

BTW, you can't reuse the cpu.

--Sadique

Xen 3.1 is running in ubuntu 7.10.

Best regards, Christoph

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