From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jesse Ahrens Subject: Re: KVM on Via Nano (Isaiah) CPUs? Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:04:16 -0500 Message-ID: <49D3C8C0.9070803@centtech.com> Reply-To: jahrens@centtech.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kvm@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from moat3.centtech.com ([64.129.166.50]:65138 "EHLO mh1.centtech.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754782AbZDAUiJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Apr 2009 16:38:09 -0400 Received: from [10.30.0.26] (cj0-26.centtech.com [10.30.0.26]) by mh1.centtech.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n31K4MxT044046 for ; Wed, 1 Apr 2009 15:04:22 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jahrens@centtech.com) Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > Via engineers have contacted me and confirmed that this is a problem in > the processor. I'd like to clarify. Stepping 2 Nano processors do not support VMX. This should have been disabled by the BIOS. Support for VMX was not finished until stepping 3. If you have a stepping 2 processor with this enabled please let me know which platform it is on so we can have the manufacturer release a new BIOS. Jesse Ahrens Systems Engineer Centaur Technology