Re: kvm, ubuntu 7.10 & vmware

[Cam Macdonell <cam-edFDblaTWIyXbbII50Afww@public.gmane.org>]

Jared Greenwald wrote:
> I'm trying to get a pre-built vmware image of Windows running on
> ubuntu 7.10.  I tried running qemu directly on the vmdk file, but that
> is extremely slow.  For example, it takes about a minute to get the
> context menu to come up when you right-click on the desktop.  I tried
> converting the vmdk to qcow, qcow2 and raw formats, but I get an error
> saying that the drive is not bootable.  I looked through the help
> pages and there is information about loading the kvm-intel module, but
> I'm getting the "not supported" error message.  I looked into updating
> the bios as this is usually pointed to as the cause and it appears I'm
> at the most recent version.
> 
> So, the question is, am I missing something or am I doing something wrong?
> 

To be clear, are you running "modprobe kvm_intel" and it's returning 
"not supported"?
Did you install kvm with apt-get?

When you run "cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep flags", do you see "vmx" in the 
list of flags?

Cam

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