Re: [Xen-users] Question about Intel VT on PowerEdge

Eric-Olivier Lamey
Thu, 09 Nov 2006 00:31:38 -0000

On 11/8/06, Solli Honorio <shonorio@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi, I''m runing a Fedora Core 6 on a Power Edge with Xeon Cranford
that I
> planning to running Windows as a guest S.O. and reading "Fedora Xen
> Quickstar FC6" as document to install Xen on this server.
>
> This document recomend a "grep vmx /proc/cpuinfo" test to verify
if computer
> is Intel VT supported. Running this command I don''t find any
information
> about vmx.
>
> My question is : Without this flag I can''t run Windows as guest on
this
> server ?

  Hi,
  I don"t know if this Xeon model is VT capable, but if it is you
should check if it is enabled in the BIOS. On the last PowerEdge 1950
we received, VT was not enabled by default (the option in in the CPU
section, but I can''t remember the exact name).