[CentOS-virt] moving from Xen to KVM
Pasi Kärkkäinen
pasik at iki.fi
Wed Feb 24 21:38:47 UTC 2010
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 08:16:53AM -0600, Dave Augustus wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I have been building a new server to deploy using Xen. However, seeing
> that Redhat is moving towards KVM, it would seem beneficial to deply this
> server using KVM as well. This is a Centos 5.4 x86_64 fresh install.
>
> So here is the scoop:
>
> * running the xen kernel with 2 vms works great. I have 2 vms- a cobbler
> host and an ldap host.
> * running with non-xen kernel, I can't seem to get anything to work
> right. Using virt-install from the command line, I get the response of
> "Host does not support any virtualization options" yet I know it does.
>
> What am I missing here?
>
> I spent some hours last night searching and came up empty.
>
What does "xm info" say about caps/capabilities?
Do you see hvm supported?
Xen HVM guests require CPU virtualization extensions (Intel VT, AMD-V) to be present
and enabled in the BIOS.
-- Pasi
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