[geeks] the virtualization project

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Sat Sep 10 14:19:00 CDT 2011


On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 12:51:16PM -0400, Shannon wrote:
> Are you running them using hardware virtualization? I didn't see another way
> under KVM, and that's one thing I wanted to avoid if I were going to run
> several OS.

Yes.  

> I am looking at KVM but there were two issues that came up. One is its that it
> seems to require HVM (hardware virtualizatin) even if you have paravirtual
> drivers (virtio). I tried it on my AMD Opteron system and it just refused to
> work, and from what I read it is the lack of HVM support on that CPU.

Why are you against hardware virtualization?  You just want it to work on
what you've got now?

Bill

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Bill Bradford 
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