Re: kvm: disabled by bios

Avi Kivity
2007-10-14T07:44:05Z

Emmanuel Nicolas Millan wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> is there any option to reenable virtualisation support (AMD-CPU) if it
>> is disabled by bios (and Bios does not show an option to enable
>> virtualisation support)?
>>
>
>
>> Elmar
>>
>
> Hi, i'm having the same problem, my bios doesn't have an option to
> enable virtualization support, and I already upgrade the bios to the
> last version available.
>
> I saw the patch "[patches] [PATCH] [19/50] Experimental: detect if SVM
> is disabled by BIOS" could this patch resolve the problem?

No.

> is there
> any way to enable SVM support with KVM

Ask your hardware vendor. If kvm says it's disabled, there's nothing
else that can be done.

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