Re: vmx problem

["Pasi Kärkkäinen" <pasik@iki.fi>]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:30:47AM +0530, Fasiha Ashraf wrote:
>    Yeah... I believe so till now. If this is true why my virt-manager
>    behaving like this. PFA some screen shots of virt-manager, both virt types
>    para and fully are disabled. and it stops me from creating a VM.
> 

VMX is not needed for paravirtualized (PV) guests. VMX is only needed
for fully virtualized (HVM) guests.

Are you sure you're running Xen? What does "xm info" and "xm list" tell
you?

-- Pasi

>    Regards,
>    Fasiha Ashraf
> 
>    --- On Fri, 23/10/09, Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)
>    <space.time.universe@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>      From: Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) <space.time.universe@gmail.com>
>      Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] vmx problem
>      To: "Fasiha Ashraf" <feehapk@yahoo.co.in>
>      Cc: "Keir Fraser" <keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com>, "Pasi Kärkkäinen"
>      <pasik@iki.fi>, "Fajar A." <fajar@fajar.net>,
>      xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
>      Date: Friday, 23 October, 2009, 10:20 AM
> 
>      For paravirtualized guests I don't think you need the hardware
>      virtualization assist (VMX). You only need vmx when you want to create
>      HVM guests.
> 
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>      On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Fasiha Ashraf <[4]feehapk@yahoo.co.in>
>      wrote:
> 
>        >>Any plans for 'nested' VMX support? KVM seems to have that.
>        No i just need to enable virtualization flag on my intel xeon quad
>        core processor, so that i can create paravirt VMs in my set-up. Which
>        at this time virt-manager is not allowing me to do.
> 
>        Regards,
>        Fasiha Ashraf
> 
>        --- On Thu, 22/10/09, Pasi Kärkkäinen <[5]pasik@iki.fi> wrote:
> 
>          From: Pasi Kärkkäinen <[6]pasik@iki.fi>
>          Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] vmx problem
>          To: "Keir Fraser" <[7]keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com>
>          Cc: "Fasiha Ashraf" <[8]feehapk@yahoo.co.in>, "Fajar A."
>          <[9]fajar@fajar.net>, "xen" <[10]xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
>          Date: Thursday, 22 October, 2009, 7:22 PM
> 
>          On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 03:12:04PM +0100, Keir Fraser wrote:
>          > VMX is hidden from guest kernels as it's not a feature they
>          themselves can
>          > make use of. Hence it does not appear in the guest's
>          /proc/cpuinfo.
>          >
> 
>          Any plans for 'nested' VMX support? KVM seems to have that..
> 
>          -- Pasi
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