Virtualisation on FC7 and AMD3700+ [Archive]

akines

2007-07-10, 11:57 AM CDT

Hi again :)
I've installed FC7 also on a pc with an Amd 3700+ "San Diego" cpu and a motherboard Asus A8N-E.
I know that this cpu supports the virtualisation (SVM), then why xen doesn't recognise is as it is and propose me the semi-virtualisation? and if I try with egrep '^flags.*(vmx|svm)........ command I receive nothing as response?
Thanks
Alex

stevea

2007-07-10, 04:58 PM CDT

Yeah vmx is the Intel virtualization, "svm" the AMD flag for virtualization.
"grep svm /proc/cpuinfo" should return the flags line or there is no chance it will work in native form,
Some bios/firmware do not support and actually hide the virtualization !

OTOH I don't think Xen requires virtualization hardware support. See the Fedora virtualization note here.
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f7/en_US/sn-Virtualization.html

Btw, reading the release notes is a very good idea. Unlike MS-[WV], the release notes are far more than an unreadable EULA.