Re: HVM guest support is unavailable

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 01:44:13PM -0500, John Hayward wrote:
> Hi Xen People,
>    I am running Xen version 3.3 on the amd64 port on an intel processor
> (from dmesg vcpu0 at hypervisor0: Intel 686-class, 2327MHz, id 0x6fb)

What kind of CPU is it ? What does
/usr/sbin/cpuctl identify 0
says about it ?

>    When I attempt to start a WindowsXP guest domu I get:


> ===
> Error: HVM guest support is unavailable: is VT/AMD-V supported by your CPU 
> and enabled in your BIOS?
> ===
>    Is this because I am using the amd64 port?
>    Should I be able to run a HVM 32 bit guest on the amd64 port?

Yes

>    Should I be able to run a HVM 64 bit guest on the amd64 port?

Yes

>    Do I need to adjust cpuid in the bios?
> 
> I have been able on xen 3.0 on the i386 port run a HVM 32 bit guest.

On this same machine ?

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