F11 kvm-qemu: isn't svm enough on AMD?

sean darcy seandarcy2 at gmail.com
Mon Apr 27 12:55:54 UTC 2009


Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, sean darcy wrote:
> 
>> drago01 wrote:
>>> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:00 AM, sean darcy <seandarcy2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> With all the changes in F11, I'm trying to set up a Windows XP virtual
>>>> machine with kvm/qemu. But not joy:
>>>>
>>>> virt-install
>>>> ERROR    Host does not support any virtualization options
>>>>
>>>> but /proc/cpuinfo shows svm (this is AMD).
>>>>
>>>> What am I missing?
>>> is the kvm-amd module loaded?
>>>
>>> lsmod | grep kvm should show it.
>>> if not try to load it by doing modprobe kvm-amd
>>>
>> Yes it is:
>>
>> lsmod | grep kvm
>> kvm_amd                30940  3
>> kvm                   153112  1 kvm_amd
>>
>> The problem was that not enough of the qemu stack was installed. I
>> had qemu-common, qemu-x86, qemu-system-x86 installed by yum. I'd
>> assumed they pull in whatever was necessary. Silly me. Installed all
>> qemu, now I get the new machine box.
> 
>   hang on ... so which qemu-related package was missing?  i'm thinking
> qemu-user but it would be nice to clarify that.
> 
> rday
> --

I don't know. I'd first done yum groupinstall virtualization. As I 
remember, that only brought in qemu-img. When that didn't work I 
installed qemu*x86. I may have installed qemu-user also. Finally yum 
install qemu*. Then it worked.

Any clues on paravirtualization?

sean




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