Re: To KVM or not to KVM

2010-11-11 Thread Paula R T Coelho
On 11 November 2010 14:23, B. Alexander wrote: > If you are running Linux-on-Linux, you might consider either vserver > or openvz. It does virtual containers similar to Sunacle Solaris' or Xen hypervisor www.xen.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

Re: To KVM or not to KVM

2010-11-11 Thread B. Alexander
Dave is correct. I have researched this long and hard, since I don't particularly like vmware because they only seem to pay lip-service to Linux. So I have researched a lot of the virtualization platforms for Linux. KVM needs a 64-bit cpu, but it also, as Dave said, needs the VTX instruction set (

Re: To KVM or not to KVM

2010-11-11 Thread David A. Parker
I think that the virtualization support in some CPUs is not compatible with KVM. I have an HP server with two dual-core Xeon model 5160 CPUs in it. According to Intel's website, this CPU has the VT-x extension for virtualization support, and I enabled virtualization support in the BIOS. Howe

Re: To KVM or not to KVM

2010-11-11 Thread ceduard0
2010/11/11 David Baron > > I have a dual core intel processor with hyperthreading, etc. > Virtualization options are set on in BIOS. > > I still get something like "CPU does not have extensions, doing nothing" when > the KVM driver tries to load. > > I am using a stock 2.6.32 kernel from Sid. > >

To KVM or not to KVM

2010-11-11 Thread David Baron
I have a dual core intel processor with hyperthreading, etc. Virtualization options are set on in BIOS. I still get something like "CPU does not have extensions, doing nothing" when the KVM driver tries to load. I am using a stock 2.6.32 kernel from Sid. How do I activate KVM stuff? Need to com