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Intel DX58SO , Intel i7 920 Linux and Xen No VMX or HVM.

emptystr
Beginner
‎12-03-2009 01:51 PM
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Hello

I am having problems whit hardware virtualization on Debian Lenny (LINUX) it seems that the operating system doesn't flag the cpu core's whit vmx.

Does anybody had a similar problem ?

BIOS:
XD Tecnhology
Intel VT
Intel VT for Direct I/O (VT-d)
Interrupt Remapping
FLR Capability

Setup:
Intel DX58S0 ( BIOS VERSION SOX5810J.86A.4405.2009.1020.1419)
Intel Core i7 920
Crucial Ballistix 8GB (4x2)
Corsair SSD 32GB

System:
Debian Lenny - Linux hvp.hkd.lan 2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Nov 5 04:27:12 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Logs:
interrupts.
dmesg.
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David_O_Intel1
Employee
‎12-14-2009 02:11 PM
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If you aretalking about the info in /proc/cpuinfo, this isexpected because its a guest (and thus VMX is masked). The command xm info might provide more useful info.

David Ott
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