Re: windows server 2008 hyper-v on kvm

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>]

Gleb Natapov wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 04:19:55PM +0000, Evan Ingram wrote:
>> hi,
>>
>> running windows server 2008 on kvm as guest os. i need to install
>> hyper-v on the guest os but i get the error about my processor not
>> having the correct hardware virtualisation support. i read i should
>> perhaps try running the kvm with '-cpu host' but i still get the
>> same error.
>>
>> any advice?
> KVM not yet fas all needed pieces for windows to recognise that VM
> supports hyper-v. And only very small part of hyper-v spec is actually
> implemented right now.

I tend to think he is looking for nested virtualization. That is only
available on AMD hosts so far. If you are on AMD, I think you need to
pass -enable-nesting to qemu-kvm to enable it.

Jan

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