Re: [Xen-users] Dell PowerEdge 2850 / Xen / Windows 2003 / Debian

["Nick Couchman" <Nick.Couchman@xxxxxxxxx>]

The PowerEdge 2850s that I have do not support Intel VT technology, which is required to run HVM (full virtualization) for Operating Systems that do not support Paravirtualization - like windows.  Your CPU flags do not include the "vmx" flag, which is what VT shows up as in the cpuinfo output - you can check in the BIOS and see if there's an option to enable Virtualization Technology, but I don't know that any of the 8th-generation PowerEdge servers support it.

 

-Nick

>>> On 2009/03/15 at 12:25, "Joseph Campisi III" <jcampisi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi, recently I came across a deal on a bunch of Dell PowerEdge 2850 servers and I was hoping to use them to run Debian with Xen to provided virtualization support for Windows 2003 and other Debian installations.  I was hoping to install 2 copies of Windows 2003 as well as 2 copies of Debian all on top of the DOM0 Debian installation.

 

The servers have dual 3.2ghz CPU's and include 16GB of ram with plenty of disk space.

 

Can I accomplish this or should I avoid the 2850's and look for something else?

 

Here is CPU info for one of the 4 cores -

 

processor       : 0

vendor_id       : GenuineIntel

cpu family      : 15

model           : 4

model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.20GHz

stepping        : 1

cpu MHz         : 3192.394

cache size      : 1024 KB

physical id     : 0

siblings        : 2

core id         : 0

cpu cores       : 1

apicid          : 0

initial apicid  : 0

fdiv_bug        : no

hlt_bug         : no

f00f_bug        : no

coma_bug        : no

fpu             : yes

fpu_exception   : yes

cpuid level     : 5

wp              : yes

flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc pebs bts pni monitor ds_cpl cid cx16 xtpr

bogomips        : 6390.01

clflush size    : 64

power management:

 

 

Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated!

 

Thanks:  Joseph Campisi

 

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