Re: KVM problem
On Friday 09 March 2012 10:16:48 Jon Dowland wrote:
> 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.
He says it is enabled. And double-checked it to be sure.
>
> > 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'm sure virt-manager is very nice. But there are no GUIs where I'm going: no
X11, no vnc, no kde or gnome. Only plain old command line (POCL).
>
> > 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.
Are you saying that qemu should not be expected to work on a non-HV-enabled
system?
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