Re: [Xen-users] Verification of CPU

[jonr@xxxxxxxxxx]

Quoting Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@xxxxxxxxx>:

> Age_M wrote:
> > Hi again,
> >
> > jonr@xxxxxxxxxx schrieb:
> > > Uff, thanks Age, I have always liked Gigabyte and probably would   
> > > have gone that way if not for your reply.
> > Yes, me too. Always liked Gigabyte, but Tech-Support wasn't willing  
> >  to help and for this really small fix, it's sort of a poor support  
> >  :-/ But, it's not impossible. I finally archived to modify the  
> > BIOS  and re-enabled the AMD-V support. Though, I don't understand  
> > why  Gigabyte disabled it. I doubt that it is a stability issue,  
> > because  the motherbord runs rock-solid here ;) I guess it's just a  
> >  marketing thing. My M61P-S3 is a low cost board and maybe the  
> > +100$  motherboards have the Virtualisation-Feature available...?  
> > But it's  just a guess...
> > Greetz Age_M
> This is why I hate so many commercial BIOS's, and hope hte LinuxBIOS
> project really takes off. So many of such features are concealed or
> mis-set by default, and it's very difficult to reset the system
> defaults. For example, even if you reset it in a BIOS with VT or HVM
> available, you will revert to the default if you fail reboot 3 times in
> a row, and you can't reset it without hands and eyes at the console.
>
> This sort of thing is why I prefer to stuff fake keyboard widgets onto
> the PS/2 port, rather than rely on BIOS resetting to allow the system
> to boot without a keyboard attached on so many server class systems.
This is a good case for serial console access with a cyclades or some  
other type of serial access box. You then ssh into the cyclades and  
can then connect to the serial port and change your BIOS settings.
Jon



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