On 14/01/2013 15:03, Arun Khan wrote: > On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 9:14 AM, SilverTip257 <silvertip257 at gmail.com> wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 8:12 PM, Gordon Messmer <yinyang at eburg.com> wrote: >> >>> On 01/13/2013 10:15 AM, SilverTip257 wrote: >>>> And it looks like their Atom E6xx CPU [0] supports Intel VT-x. >>>> [0] >>> http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/embedded/hwsw/hardware/atom-e6xx/overview >>> >>> Before you get too excited, the board's firmware is comBIOS, which is a >>> Soekris-specific firmware that is designed to work well with a serial >>> console. I didn't spend a lot of time on it, but I did give KVM virt a >>> quick pass and did not get it working. They do run a 64-bit Linux, with >>> good support for serial console and gigabit Ethernet. >>> >>> >> Any ideas why KVM didn't work? >> > Unless, the comBIOS cripples the VT-x feature, CLI qemu-kvm with > "-vga none" is worth a try. > > I re-call such a discussion on the Soekris mailing list, can't locate the thread, but there were issues with virtualisation even though the atom chip supported it. -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 7983 877438 http://www.coochey.net http://www.netsecspec.co.uk giles at coochey.net