On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Brian Martin<[email protected]> wrote: > >> You probably already checked this, but could it just be that hardware >> virtualization is turned off in the bios? >> Bill > > Thanks, Bill. I took the system down and verified that the BIOS had "Secure > Virtual Machine" enabled. This appears to be the only virtualization option > in the BIOS. I then booted up, but the "svm" flag doesn't appear in the > /proc/cpuinfo "flags" area. In essence, it seems that the BIOS says > virtualization is enabled, but Linux says it isn't. > > I tried updating the BIOS to the latest version, but that didn't change > anything. This is SuperMicro mainboard, H8SMi-2 rev 2.01, with a dual core > Opteron 1220 processor. > > Does anyone have any experience with Linux failing to detect virtualization > capabilities? > > -Brian
Maybe it's a kernel problem. Here is a report of a XEN kernel not detecting the SVM flag. http://www.novell.com/support/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=7001447&sliceId=1&docTypeID=DT_TID_1_1 Or, less likely, it's a bios problem and you could try updating the bios. Bill _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
