Re: [Xen-users] AMD and Hardware Virtualization

["J. Roeleveld" <joost@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 01 July 2010 20:21:57 JP P wrote:
> Le jeudi 01 juillet 2010 Ã 07:47 +0700, Fajar A. Nugraha a Ãcrit :
> > On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 6:31 AM, Net Warrior <netwarrior863@xxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> > > Hi There guys
> > >
> > > While trying to create a Windows DomU I've get this error
> > >
> > > Error: HVM guest support is unavailable: is VT/AMD-V supported by your
> > > CPU and enabled in your BIOS?
> > >
> > > But my CPU says it supports hardware virtualization, what's wrong?, or
> > > does xen search for a particular flag ( svm )
> >
> > Did you do what the error message suggested, and check the BIOS? Some
> > vendor turn it off by default but provides a setting to turn it on,
> > others (like Sony) simply don't allow users to use that feature.
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I get the same problem with an ASUS mothercard, and I didn't see any
> option in the BIOS to enable AMD IO/virt.
> Is it possible to activate it by software ?

Try upgrading your BIOS.
On my ASUS mainboards, I had to upgrade the BIOS to get this option working.

If the BIOS does not support it, the OS won't be able to support it either.

--
Joost Roeleveld

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