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Thanks for all the responses!!!<BR>
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I finally realized that when running Xen and in Dom0, Xen hides the AMD-V in /proc/cpuinfo<BR>
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(...more reasons to move to KVM)<BR>
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Now to convert my Xen vms to KVM.<BR>
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--<BR>
Dave<BR>
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On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 02:32 +0100, Dennis J. wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Do you have the "kvm" package installed?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Also what exactly do you mean by "KVM as well"? Are you aware that you can </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">only run Xen or KVM but not both at the same time on the same host?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Regards,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> Dennis</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">On 02/25/2010 12:14 AM, Dave Augustus wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> What is needed to install kvm? I have the non xen kernel as the default.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> I have virsh, virt-install installed. What am I missing in my config?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Look at my second bullet point to get a sense of where I am stuck.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Thanks for your help,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Dave</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> On Feb 24, 2010, at 12:14 PM, Adam <<A HREF="mailto:adam0x54@gmail.com">adam0x54@gmail.com</A></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> <<A HREF="mailto:adam0x54@gmail.com">mailto:adam0x54@gmail.com</A>>> wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> Did you install kvm?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> If you need to move the xen virtual machines to kvm you will need to</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> boot them in rescue mode, change your modprobe.conf to load the</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> regular scsci and nic drivers, install a regular kernel, remove the</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> xen console from inittab and remove console=xvc0 from your</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> /etc/grub.conf and reboot.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> -Adam</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Dave Augustus <</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> <<A HREF="mailto:davea@ingraftedsoftware.com">mailto:davea@ingraftedsoftware.com</A>><A HREF="mailto:davea@ingraftedsoftware.com">davea@ingraftedsoftware.com</A></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> <<A HREF="mailto:davea@ingraftedsoftware.com">mailto:davea@ingraftedsoftware.com</A>>> wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> Hello All,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> I have been building a new server to deploy using Xen. However,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> seeing that Redhat is moving towards KVM, it would seem beneficial</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> to deply this server using KVM as well. This is a Centos 5.4</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> x86_64 fresh install.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> So here is the scoop:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> * running the xen kernel with 2 vms works great. I have 2 vms-</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> a cobbler host and an ldap host.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> * running with non-xen kernel, I can't seem to get anything to</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> work right. Using virt-install from the command line, I get</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> the response of "Host does not support any virtualization</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> options" yet I know it does.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> What am I missing here?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> I spent some hours last night searching and came up empty.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> Thanks in advance,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> Dave</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> _______________________________________________</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> <<A HREF="mailto:CentOS-virt@centos.org">mailto:CentOS-virt@centos.org</A>></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> <<A HREF="http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt">http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt</A>><A HREF="http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt">http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt</A></FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> _______________________________________________</FONT>
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