F11 kvm-qemu: isn't svm enough on AMD?
Bill Davidsen
davidsen at tmr.com
Wed Apr 29 18:04:30 UTC 2009
sean darcy wrote:
> 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?
>
To test stuff running paravirt mode you can run a CentOS-5.3 machine under KVM
and then use xen in that. Useful for proof of concept, not so much for
production, although I have a light duty web server running that way, because I
got tired of upgrading.
--
Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
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