Re: kvm: disabled by bios

Joerg Roedel
2007-10-18T10:39:57Z

On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 09:30:54PM -0300, 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? is there
> any way to enable SVM support with KVM?

If SVM is disabled by BIOS there is nothing you can do with current
hardware to reenable it. If the BIOS does not provide an option to
reenable it please contact your BIOS vendor for a newer BIOS which
support reenablement of SVM.

Joerg