On Wed, July 14, 2010 14:20, Whit Blauvelt wrote: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 01:47:00PM -0500, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > >> I found one BIOS entry, "Virtualization technology"; it was initially >> disabled, but I enabled it before I installed CENTOS, and verified that >> it >> was still enabled later (I reported enabling it in my original message). >> I'll check for other suspicious BIOS entries, but more than one for this >> would be unusual, wouldn't it? > > That's the entry. But reports are some systems need to be fully powered > off > for the entry to be effectively changed - some BIOSes evidently are flakey > about it. That didn't work either. And then, elsewhere in this thread, Paul Heinlein pointed out that doing the test for vmx *from within dom0* wasn't valid. Checking the xm dmesg output, I find "VMX enabled". (I can't tell if that's been there all along, or not, at this point.) So, Win! Thanks to you and all the others who made suggestions. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info