Re: KVM problem

[Jon Dowland <jmtd@debian.org>]

On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 06:52:03PM -0500, Neal Murphy wrote:
> Howdy!
> 
> A friend is having the devil's own time trying to get qemu-kvm working for 
> himself. I have no such trouble.
> 
> We are both using Squeeze. I have a quad Phenom-II with 8GB RAM, nVidia video. 
> He has a dual Athlon with 3GB RAM, ATI video (and recently bought and tried an 
> nVidia AGP card). Both CPUs support HV.

But is it enabled? It is disabled by default in most BIOSes.

> I wrote a bash script that greatly simplifies and greatly automates 
> configuring and running KVM VMs while avoiding network/vdisk collisions among 
> them.

I prefer virt-manager for this, but each to their own :-)

> I am at a loss to explain. He had the same problem on an older system using 
> qemu (no KVM) on an athlon that did not support HV.

That suggests that HV is not available on his new machine - most probably disabled.