[CentOS] Virtual Machine Manager Doesn't see vmx flag

Wed Mar 16 01:17:30 UTC 2011
David McGuffey <davidmcguffey at verizon.net>

On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 21:21 +0100, Athmane Madjoudj wrote:
> On 03/15/2011 12:54 PM, David McGuffey wrote:
> > Finished installing CentOS 5.5 x86_64 on a new Dell tower workstation
> > that has a quad core Intel processor and 8 GB of ram.  BIOS has hardware
> > virtualization support enabled. /proc/cpuinfo shows that all four cores
> > have the vmx flag present.
> >
> > I applied a lot of the National Security Agency guide for securing Red
> > Hat Linux 5, testing the key applications I need as I went.  At the end
> > of the process I bring up VMM and it claims that the hardware doesn't
> > support full virtualization.

> Can you see if kvm modules are loaded:
> 
> lsmod | grep kvm
> 
> Example in my laptop (Intel C2D):
> 
> $ lsmod | grep kvm
> kvm_intel              41950  0
> kvm                   257356  1 kvm_intel
> 
> HTH

I'll check tomorrow when I'm at the machine.

Dave M