From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Laurent Vivier Subject: Re: VT enabled in BIOS, still kvm says 'disabled by bios' Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:44:48 +0200 Message-ID: <1213267488.3708.1.camel@frecb07144> References: <4850FBCD.4040300@cse.iitb.ac.in> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Sukanto Ghosh Return-path: Received: from ecfrec.frec.bull.fr ([129.183.4.8]:40520 "EHLO ecfrec.frec.bull.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754693AbYFLKow (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:44:52 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4850FBCD.4040300@cse.iitb.ac.in> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi, You need to go through a power-down/power-up cycle. (See the help associated with the flag in the BIOS) Laurent Le jeudi 12 juin 2008 =C3=A0 16:04 +0530, Sukanto Ghosh a =C3=A9crit : > Hi all, >=20 > On my system: >=20 > Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 6300 1.86 GHz > Motherboard: Intel DG965RY > OS: Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy) > Linux Kernel: 2.6.22-14-generic > BIOS has VT technology 'enable/disable' feature. >=20 > 'cat /proc/cpuinfo' shows 'vmx' flags. > I checked and enabled the VT support in the BIOS. >=20 > 'modprobe kvm' runs fine. > But still 'modprobe kvm_intel' gives 'operation not supported' error. >=20 > (I issued both of them after 'su') >=20 > After looking into the /var/log/syslog, file I found that the message= is=20 > 'kvm: disabled by bios'. >=20 >=20 > I am puzzled, please help me out. What's going wrong ? >=20 >=20 >=20 > Thanks and Regards, >=20 > Sukanto Ghosh > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >=20 --=20 ------------- Laurent.Vivier@bull.net --------------- "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay