[Fedora-xen] Xeon Core 5130 couldn't support full-virtualization?

[Zhen Zhou]

On 3/3/07, Rick Stevens <rstevens at vitalstream.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 14:42 +0800, Zhen Zhou wrote:
> > Hi, lists,
> > Now I dive the sea of xen, I took a Dell 2950 Server, install FC 6 i386 on it,
> > I refer some documents about Xen:
> > http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraXenQuickstartFC6
> > So i checked as following:
> > 1. check Intel VM for host CPU, it works, it showed me:
> > flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca
> > cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm
> > constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx tm2 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
>                                   ^^^
> The "vmx" flag is the Intel virtualization flag.  Middle of the third
> line above (I marked it).
>
> > 2. check hvm-??, then I have no luck. even I enable virtualization in BIOS.
>
> Again, the flag is "vmx" for Intel, "svm" for AMD.
>
> > so how could I enable fully-virtualizied  in this server? or should I
> > install x86_64 for it?
> > Because this server CPU is Intel Xeon Core 5130 serial.
>
> You should have the fully virtualized ability since you have the vmx
> flag.
>
But when I want to check hypervisor capability set in this server:

# cat /sys/hypervisor/properties/capabilities :

nothing to me, so should I discare it? or the server couldn't support
full virtualization
capaility, even CPU is right one, is it?

Thanks a lot,

Zhou Zhen
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