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

sean darcy seandarcy2 at gmail.com
Mon Apr 27 21:58:24 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?
> 
> sean
> 

I probably found the reason installing qemu*86 is not enough:

http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Running_libvirt_with_KVM

sean




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