I've a HP 8000 Elite SFF machine with Intel Core 2 Duo Quad and 16 GB RAM. I wanted to create a LAB environment to try new things (like CentOS 7). I installed CentOS 6.10 64-bit with no problems and everything is running fine.
I then went to Server World and followed the instructions to install Desktop and Virtualization. The install went fine but I had errors when I attempted to build my KVM virtual machines. I looked at dmesg and found a message stating that virtualization was turned off in the BIOS so I turned if on based on the output of lscpu:
Architecture: x86_64 CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit Byte Order: Little Endian CPU(s): 4 On-line CPU(s) list: 0-3 Thread(s) per core: 1 Core(s) per socket: 4 Socket(s): 1 NUMA node(s): 1 Vendor ID: GenuineIntel CPU family: 6 Model: 23 Model name: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9550 @ 2.83GHz Stepping: 10 CPU MHz: 1998.000 BogoMIPS: 5652.96 Virtualization: VT-x L1d cache: 32K L1i cache: 32K L2 cache: 6144K NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-3
There were 2 parameters in the BIOS, VT-x and VT-x with Direct I/O. And as I was told, I powered the machine off.
After restarting the machine I went to the instructions to build a virtual machine and that is where I've run into a problem I can't seem to solve. Using virt-manager and entering all of the requested parameters I clicked on the Finish button and immediately I get the Caps Lock and Scroll Lock keyboard lights blinking without stoping and everything locked up. Only the power button seems to work.
Any ideas where I can possibly find the issue with this?