(disabled)Fully Virtualization radio button in XEN

amquiapo · 12-06-2008, 12:28 AM

i installed Xen packages in a RHEL 5 server x86_64. Currently i could successfully run virt-manager, but when i start to make a vitualized OS i was only left with the choice "paravitualized" the radio button "fully virtualized" is disabled. I want to choose the "fully virtualized". What seem to be the problem? hope you could help me in this one.

thanks

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rayfordj · 12-07-2008, 07:15 PM

most likely it is because the host CPU(s) do not support VT extension or the VT is not enabled in the host BIOS.

archtoad6 · 12-08-2008, 06:42 AM

What is your hardware? Esp. which CPU do you have?

You can check both Intel & AMD CPU's w/:

Code:

egrep -e 'vmx|svm' /proc/cpuinfo

If the command returns nothing, then the CPU does not have hardware-assisted virtualization support. AMD-V ("Pacifica") chips will show "svm" in the flags line of /proc/cpuinfo, while Intel VT ("Vanderpool") ones show "vmx".

For more info see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_virtualization, particularly
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_vir...rdware_support.

archtoad6 · 12-08-2008, 06:46 AM

P.S. Welcome to LQ.

JATA01 · 01-13-2009, 01:23 AM

I have the problem with xen.
Previously I have installed xen and was working fine, now I have reinstall the whole system again and at this time the xen kernel is rebooting again and again.

What could be the caused?

sorry for replying in this mail as I am not getting any response from the members.

Thanks-