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From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Subject: Re: Hard Locking Machine
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:00:21 +0300
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Adam Barrett wrote:
> machine specs:
>
> Compaq F572US
> AMD Athlon 64 X2 TK-53 (Dual Core) (had svm flag)
> 1024MB of RAM
>
>
> Any ideas? I will try just about anything. Thanks!
>   

Try upgrading the BIOS to the latest available version.

If that fails, try loading kvm-amd with the npt=0 module parameter.

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